Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing | |
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Spouse of the President of France | |
In role 27 May 1974 – 21 May 1981 |
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President | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
Preceded by | Claude Pompidou |
Succeeded by | Danielle Mitterrand |
Personal details | |
Born |
Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Sauvage de Brantès 10 April 1933 Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Spouse(s) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (m. 1952) |
Children | Valérie-Anne Henri Louis Jacinte |
Education | École du Louvre |
Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing, born Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Sauvage de Brantès on 10 April 1933 in Paris), is the wife of former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Though she bears no noble title, she is a daughter of François Marie Joseph Abel Henri Sauvage, comte de Brantès, who died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 8 May 1944, and his wife, the former Princess Aymone Marie Sylvie Renée de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny, a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry by his mistress Amy Brown. She also is a great-niece of the Cuban-born French designer and architect José Emilio Terry y Dorticos and the aunt of Roger Marie Joseph Henri Sauvage de Brantès, the present Marquis de Brantès.