Frédéric de Janzé, ''

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'' de Janzé (February 28, 1896 − December 24, 1933) was a French sportsman and writer. His father was ''

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'' Léon Frédéric de Janzé and his mother was Moya Hennessy, daughter of the landscape painter

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. He attended

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, and during

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served in the

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. His first wife was Alice Silverthorne, great-niece of

Philip Danforth Armour Philip Danforth Armour Sr. (16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. Born on an upstate New York farm, he made $8,000 in the California gold rush, 1852 ...

, whom he met in

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in May 1921 and married in

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in September of that year. They were divorced in June 1927, and in January 1930 he married Genevieve Ryan (née Willinger), widow of Washington financier Thomas Jefferson Ryan. His two children were from the first marriage. He was well known as a

big game hunter Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for meat, commercially valuable by-products (such as horns/antlers, furs, tusks, bones, body fat/oil, or special organs and contents), trophy/taxidermy, or simply just for recreation ("spo ...

in Kenya and wrote books on

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. His first wife, Alice, was part of the

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in Kenya, and had an affair with Raymond

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in 1926 that led to her shooting and wounding de Trafford and herself in early 1927, not long before she and Frédéric divorced.Spicer (2010), p. 27.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Janze, Frederic de 1933 deaths 1896 births French male writers Hunting 20th-century French male writers