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Anna Gould (June 5, 1875 – November 30, 1961) was an American
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and
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ess as a daughter of
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Jay Gould Jason Gould (; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made hi ...
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Early life

Anna Gould was born on June 5, 1875, in New York City. She was the daughter of Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). Her siblings included
George Jay Gould I George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW), Western Pacific Railroad (WP), and the Manhatta ...
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Edwin Gould I Edwin Gould Sr. (February 26, 1866 – July 12, 1933) was an American investor and railway official. Biography Gould was born in Manhattan, New York City, to railroad financier Jay Gould on February 26, 1866. He studied at Columbia University ...
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Helen Miller Gould Helen Miller Gould Shepard (June 20, 1868 – December 21, 1938) was an American philanthropist born in Manhattan in New York City. Birth Born as Helen Miller Gould, she was the first-born daughter of Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller (1838–188 ...
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Howard Gould Howard Gould (June 8, 1871 – September 13, 1959) was an American financier and the son of Jay Gould. Early life Gould was born in Manhattan on June 8, 1871 to railroad financier Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). He ...
, and
Frank Jay Gould Frank Jay Gould (December 4, 1877 – April 1, 1956) was a philanthropist and the son of financier Jay Gould. He was the owner of French Riviera casinos and hotels. Biography He was born on December 4, 1877, in Manhattan, New York City to ...
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Personal life

On March 14, 1895, she married
Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane (February 14, 1867 – October 20, 1932), known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading ''Belle Époque'' tastemaker and the first husb ...
(1867–1932), elder son and heir apparent of the Marquis of Castellane, in
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. He was commonly referred to as ''Boniface de Castellane'' with the nickname "Boni" and used the courtesy title of Count of Castellane (''Comte de Castellane''). Before their divorce, Boni and Anna had five children together: * Marie Louise de Castellane (b. 1896) * Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946), who married Yvonne Patenôtre, a daughter of Jules Patenôtre and Eleanor Elverson, a relative of the owners of ''
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'' * Georges Paul Ernest de Castellane (1897/9–1944), who married Florinda Fernández Anchorena (1901-1995), owner at that time, of the Fernández Anchorena Palace in Buenos Aires. * Georges Gustave de Castellane (c. 1898–1946) * Jay (Jason) de Castellane (1902-1956) They divorced in 1906, after Boniface had spent about $10 million of her family's money. Boniface then sought an annulment from the
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in 1924. After several appeals the validity of the marriage was upheld. On April 13, 1925, ''
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'' magazine wrote: "Probably not since
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tried in vain to get an annulment of his marriage with
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has a matrimonial case been so long in the courts of the
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as that on which nine Cardinals have just handed down a final decision." In 1908, she married Boni's cousin, Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Sagan (1859–1937), son of the dandy
Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord Charles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord (16 May 1832 – 21 February 1910), prince of Sagan (from 1845), duke of Sagan and duke of Talleyrand (from 1898) was a famous French dandy, and the grandson of Dorothea von Biron. Earl ...
. As eldest son and heir to the Duke of Talleyrand, he was styled Marquis of Talleyrand-Périgord and Duke of Sagan. With Talleyrand, Anna had the following two children: * Howard de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Sagan (1909-1929), who took his own life when his parents refused him permission to marry until he was 21. * Hélène Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord (1915-2003), who married Comte James Robert de Pourtalès on March 29, 1937, in
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. They divorced in 1969 and on March 20, 1969, she married
Gaston Palewski Gaston Palewski (20 March 1901 – 3 September 1984), French politician, was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy Mitford, and appears in a fiction ...
(1901–1984), former Minister of Scientific Research, Atomic Energy and Space Questions. She had Issue. She returned to the United States four months before her death and died on December 8, 1961, in Paris. She is entombed in
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in Paris.


Descendants

Anna was a grandmother to Elisabeth de Castellane (1928-1991), who married Jean Bertrand Jacques Adrien Nompar Comte de Caumont La Force (1920-1986) in
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on December 7, 1948. She was also a grandmother to Diane Rose Anne Marie de Castellane (b. 1927), who married Philippe François Armand Marie Duc de Mouchy Prince-Duc de Poix (1922-2011) in Paris (civil ceremony) on April 14, 1948 (religious ceremony) on April 20, 1948. After having children, they divorced on March 13, 1974. She was also grandmother to Comte Hélie de Pourtalès who married, as her second husband, the eldest daughter of Princess
Marie Clotilde Bonaparte Marie Clotilde Eugénie Alberte Laetitia Geneviève Bonaparte (20 March 1912, Brussels, Belgium14 April 1996, Château de la Pommerie, Cendrieux, France) was a French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty, the eldest child of Victor, Prince Napoléo ...
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Timelines

*1875 Birth of Anna Gould *1895 Marriage to Paul Ernest Boniface comte de Castellane (1867–1932), on March 14 *1908 Marriage to Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (Contains illustration of wedding in empty church in London) *1929 Suicide of Howard de Talleyrand-Périgord, her son *1932 Death of Boniface de Castellane, her first husband *1932 Awarded the Cross of the French Legion of Honor *1937 Death of Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, her second husband *1939 Returns to the US and lives in Lyndhurst at her father's estate *1961 Death of Anna Gould


See also

*
Jenny Jerome Jennie Spencer-Churchill (; 9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill. Early ...
, an American who married the
Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He inspired a generation of party managers, created the National Union of ...


References


External links


Anna Gould bibliography
**Laure Hillerin,

', Paris, Flammarion, Nov. 2019. The only existing biography of Anna Gould
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Further reading

*New York Times; February 9, 1895; pg. 5; Count Castellane's lineage. His ancestors date from the Crusades and his father is wealthy. *New York Times; February 10, 1895; pg. 11; World of society: Engagement of Miss Anna Gould and Count Castellane. It is probable that the public, if not society, breathed a sigh of relief last week when it was finally, definitely, and conclusively announced that Miss Anna Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould, was actually engaged to be married. *New York Times; March 5, 1895; pg. 1; Now a French Countess. *New York Times; January 19, 1897; pg. 7; Count Castellane's heir. A son born to the Countess early yesterday morning. *Covington Sun; April 16, 1908; Gould to Wed *New York Times; July 12, 1908; pg. SM1; The family in which Ann Gould married; Three French Dukedoms and a Prussian Principality belong to the Talleyrand-Périgords, Historic house which has already formed three American alliances. Jay Gould's youngest daughter, Anna, is the fourth American woman to marry into the historic house of Talleyrand-Périgord, one of the most ancient and illustrious families of the Old World, yet relatively little is known about it on this side of the Atlantic. *Time; April 13, 1925; Divorce *Time; December 12, 1932; Cross of the French Legion of Honor. *New York Times; October 27, 1937; pg. 31; Talleyrand dead; wed Anna Gould; Duke Was known as Prince of Sagan at time of courtship in first of century. Marie Pierre Camille Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Sagan and fifth Duke of Talleyrand, was a principal in one of the international marriage of the first decade of this century. He married Anna Gould, heir to more than $80,000,000 of the fortune of her father, the late Jay Gould, after she had divorced his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. *Time; March 26, 1945; The Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime (40 years) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants—more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000—for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work. *New York Times; November 30, 1961; pg. 37; Duchesse de Talleyrand Is Dead; youngest daughter of Jay Gould {{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Anna 1878 births 1961 deaths American socialites Annulment
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