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Jacques Balsan. Louis Jacques Balsan (September 16, 1868 – November 4, 1956) was a French aviator and industrialist, born at Châteauroux (Indre) in 1868, who was the second husband of society beauty Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough.
Consuelo's second wedding, on 4 July 1921, was to Lt. Col. Jacques Balsan, a record-breaking pioneer French balloon, aircraft, and hydroplane pilot who once worked with the Wright Brothers. Also a textile manufacturing heir, Balsan was the younger brother of Étienne Balsan, an early lover of Coco Chanel. [39]
Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (formerly the Duchess of Marlborough) in Saint-Georges-Motel.. In the middle of the 13th century, an old château belonging to Aimery de Muzy is mentioned in St. Georges-Motel that served as a residence for Eudes II Rigaud, the Archbishop of Rouen from 1247 to 1276. [1]
Shortly afterward, she married French adventurer Jacques Balsan and spent the remaining half of her life blissfully married. After France fell to the Nazis, the couple moved to the United States.
Jacques Balsan (1868–1956): 2nd husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt; Grace Vanderbilt (1870–1953): wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III; James A. Burden Jr. (1871–1932): 1st husband of Florence Adele Sloane; Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871–1934): 1st husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt
Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (formerly the Duchess of Marlborough) in Saint-Georges-Motel. The early 17th-century Château Saint-Georges-Motel, is a 10,000-square-foot castle surrounded by a moat on a 235-acre property that includes eighteen outbuildings.
Jacques Balsan; Bernard Barny de Romanet; Maryse Bastié; Maurice Bellonte; Léna Bernstein; Jean-Baptiste Biot; Jean-Pierre Blanchard; Louis Blériot; Adrienne Bolland; Élisabeth Boselli; Hélène Boucher; Jean Boulet; Louis Charles Breguet
Later that year his mother married Lt. Col. Jacques Balsan, a wealthy French balloon, aircraft, and hydroplane pilot, [3] and his father married the French American Gladys Deacon. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His paternal grandparents were George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough and his first wife, Lady Albertha Hamilton (a daughter of James Hamilton ...