Marie Say

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Marie Charlotte Say , by its marriage princess Amédée de Broglie , was born with Glass-the-Bush the August 25th 1857 and died in Paris the July 15th 1943.

Wealthy heiress of an industrialist of sugar, Constant Say, grand-daughter of Louis Say, it marries, on June 7th 1875, the prince Henri Amédée de Broglie (1849 - 1917). They have five children:

Eugene Marie Albert (1876-1922);
Antoinette (1877-1877);
Jean Victor Amédée Marie Jacques (1878-1974);
François Marie Constant Amédée Robert (1880-1956);
Stéphanie Pauline Marie Amédée Marguerite (1883-1973) (Mrs Guy de Lubersac, then Mrs André Pariente).

For the sum of 1.706.500 gold francs, paid on its economies of young girl, it buys on March 17th 1875, little before its marriage, the Château of Chaumont-sur-Loire. With his/her husband, it made there carry out luxurious installations by the architect Ernest Sanson: restitution of many elements of external and interior decorations in the spirit Néorenaissance, construction of important stables profiting from modern installations (running water and electricity in particular), etc From 1884, the park is recreated with English by the landscape designer Henri Duchêne. With this intention, of the decayed houses, encumbering the accesses of the castle, are destroyed and their inhabitants rehoused on the edges of the Loire while the old church and the cemetery are moved. The labor costs rise with 560.000 gold francs.

Broglie also constitute, by successive acquisitions, a vast domain of 2.500 hectares, on which they can drive out with courre with their guests, and also make build a private golf. During forty years, the castle is the theater of sumptuous festivals and a truly princely train of house.

“ the princess, tells André de Fouquières, éprise of Eastern splendors, liked to receive the large lords of the Indies, the Maharajahs de Kapurthala, of Baroda, Patiala. ” the Maharajah de Kapurthala made him besides present of a cow elephant. “ Undoubtedly because of a fortune which allowed him all imaginations , adds André de Fouquières, was shown somewhat despotic. With the hotel, fearing to be inconvenienced by the noise that its neighbors could have made, it required an isolated room, i.e. no appartemet, neither on the left, neither on the right, neither above, nor below was to be occupied - what increased its notes of stay singularly… But it was there for it only one futile detail. ”

The crash Cronier (1905) - during which the director of the refinery Say, Ernest Cronier committed suicide - chipped Say fortune seriously. It is said that after a first fall of the purse where it had lost several million, it says of a light tone to her husband: “ We will have to reduce our train of house… I decided to remove the sandwiches with the foie gras with the. ” But of new reverses forced with more drastic measurements. The elephant was given to the Zoological gardens, where it decays and died.

Widow in 1917, the princess remaria in 1930 with the prince Louis-Ferdinand of Orleans, Infant of Spain (1888 - 1945). This unsteady and not very scrupulous husband completed to waste the fortune of his wife. It was necessary to sell the private mansion of the Rue of Solférino then, in 1938, the castle of Chaumont was yielded to the State for 1.800.000 francs. The princess died at an age advanced in a modest apartment of the Rue of Grenelle.

External bonds

Note on the castle of Chaumont-sur-Loire
Note on the park and the field of Chaumont-sur-Loire

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