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Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise (Saint-Cyr-l'École, France, February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometimes actor and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses. His actual surname was ''Le Bailly'', though he and other members of his family used ''Le Bailly de La Falaise'', referring to an ancestral estate; it is typically abbreviated to ''de La Falaise''. As the marquis told ''The New York Times'' (October 7, 1925), "My patronymic name is Le Bailly, but ... I use the name de la Falaise because it is one of the great-grandfather branches of the Le Bailly family. De La Falaise is the only existing branch of that family today. So this should be my entire name: James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye". 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. ==Early life== La Falaise was the eldest son and second child of Louis Gabriel Venant Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1866–1910), a three time Olympics gold-medallist in fencing and former Army officer.() His mother was the former Henriette Frédérique Hennessy (1873–1965), scion of the Cognac family.〔Parents' names written as cited in their marriage banns, dated February 12, 1893, accessed on ancestry.com on November 5, 2011〕〔Parents' marriage on February 28, 1893 cited in ''Revue de Saintonge & d'Aunis, Volume 13'' (Société des archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis, Saintes, 1893), page 161〕 La Falaise inherited the title of Marquis de La Coudraye from his paternal grandfather, Gabriel-César-Henri Le Bailly de La Falaise, who, like his father, died in 1910 (the father died on April 4, the grandfather on August 6). His widowed mother married in 1912, as her second husband, Count Antoine Hocquart de Turtot (1872—1954), a cavalry officer and major French horse-racing figure. He had four full siblings: * Louise Le Bailly de La Falaise (1894—1910)〔Charles Kidd, ''Debrett Goes to Hollywood'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), page 25〕 * Henri James Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1898–1972), film director and producer, war hero and translator. * Alain Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1905—1977).〔Charles Kidd, ''Debrett Goes to Hollywood'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), page 25〕 He was the first husband of fashion model Maxime de la Falaise and the father of fashion muse/designer Loulou de la Falaise. * Richard Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1910—died at Buchenwald in 1945)〔Charles Kidd, ''Debrett Goes to Hollywood'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), page 25〕〔André Sellier, Steven Wright, and Susan Taponier, ''A History of the Dora Camp'' (I.R. Dee, 2003), page 219〕 He also had a half-sibling: *Henriette-Hyacinthe-Olympe-Geneviève Hocquart de Turtot (born circa 1913) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry de La Falaise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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