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The title held by the head of the family, Marquis de La
Coudraye, dating from 1707, was granted, by an 1876 act of succession, to the younger son of Pacôme-François Le Bailly, Seigneur de La Falaise, and his wife, Pauline-Louise-Victoire de Loynes, daughter of the Marquis de La Coudraye. La Falaise
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gold-medallist in fencing and former Army officer. His mother was the former
Henriette Lucie Frédérique Hennessy (1873–1965), scion of the Cognac family. After his father died in 1910, his widowed mother married her second husband, Count Antoine Hocquart de Turtot (1872–1954), a cavalry officer and
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Since La
Falaise had no children, the title of Marquis de La Coudraye was inherited by his younger brother, Alain de La Falaise (died 1977). It then passed to his nephew, Alexis de La Falaise (died 2004). It is now held by his grand-nephew (grandson of Alain), Daniel de La Falaise, a professional
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noted, in 2004, "if she had given birth seven months after her marriage, her career would have been ruined". During their marriage La
Falaise was employed as the California representative of
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Restrepo de Roeder (1940-his death 1972), a Colombian socialite, whose father had been a diplomat.
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Birth registration of James Henri Le Bailly de la
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