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''Louis'' Jean Victor Sévère Decazes de Glücksbierg, 4th Duc Decazes and 4th Hertig af
Glücksbierg Duke of Decazes, also called Duke Decazes (), is a title of French nobility that was granted in 1820 to Élie Decazes, a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from November 19, 1819 to February 20, 1820. He had already been m ...
(; February 24, 1889 – June 2, 1941), was a French businessman and
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owner and
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.


Biography

Louis Jean Decazes was born in
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. On October 2, 1912, he married at Savigné-l'Evêque Marie Catherine ''Germaine'' Couturié (daughter of the
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of Mesnil) (
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, April 25, 1885 -
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, October 23, 1968), with whom he had five children. In 1916 he acquired the
Haras d'Ouilly The Haras d'Ouilly is a renowned horse breeding farm in Pont-d'Ouilly, Calvados in the Normandy region of France established in the 19th century. The property was purchased in 1895 by Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d'Arenberg for his son Pierre d ...
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farm in
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,
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. He acquired more land surrounding his property and spent a great deal of money modernizing the facilities. In 1918 he purchased
Prince Palatine Prince Palatine (1908–1924) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. He was named for County Palatine of Lancaster near where his breeder William Hall Walker had been raised. Racing career Racing at age two, Prince Palatine won three of his s ...
from the South African breeder
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. In 1923, Louis Jean Decazes horse L'Yser won the
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. Beginning in 1921, he was a partner in some horses with
François Dupré François Louis Jules Dupré (; 3 December 1888 – 26 June 1966) was a French, hotelier, art collector, and owner of the Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm, Haras d'Ouilly in Pont-d'Ouilly. He was a grandson of the painter Jules ...
and in 1930 sold the Haras d'Ouilly property to Dupré. Duke Decazes died on June 2, 1941, in
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where he had lived since 1936. His sister was the fashion icon and writer
Daisy Fellowes Daisy Fellowes (''née'' Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg; 29 April 1890 – 13 December 1962) was a prominent French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American ''Harper's Bazaar'', fashi ...
.


Children and grandchildren

* ''Élie'' Ludovic Henri-Christian Decazes de Glücksberg, 5th Duc Decazes and 5th Hertig af Glücksbierg (
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, May 16, 1914 - March 17, 2011), married in
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, November 15, 1937, Solange Rose Lucie du Temple de Rougemont (
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, June 20, 1917- January 2, 2011), and had: ** Edith Marie Hélène Germaine Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, December 6, 1938), married at
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civilly on June 8 and religiously on June 9, 1962, Georges Roger Jean François Comte Lannes de Montebello (
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, September 28, 1934), and had issue ** Marie Isabelle Decazes de Glücksberg (
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- Cauderan, July 4, 1941), married at
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civilly on February 20 and religiously February 27, 1965, Jean Henri Comte de Sabran-Pontevès (
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, January 15, 1939), and had female issue ** Séverine Marie Yveline Gabrielle Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, July 29, 1943), married civilly at
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, June 24, and religiously in
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, July 8, 1967, Henri-François Léon Théophile Le Tonnelier Marquis de Breteuil (
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, December 5, 1943) ** Gabrielle Sylviane Marie-Françoise Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, March 24, 1945), unmarried and without issue ** Louis Frédéric René Marie Edouard Decazes de Glücksberg, 6th Duc Decazes and 6th Hertig af Glücksbierg (
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, November 14, 1946), unmarried and without issue * Jacques Louis Élie Mortimer Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, February 23, 1917 -
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, May 24, 1998), married in
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, June 8, 1938, Margherita Maria Helena von Heeren (
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, January 7, 1915 - 1994), and had: ** Marie-Solange Nadine Germaine Isabelle Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, April 18, 1939), married firstly at Moulleau, July 7, 1960, and divorced in
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, March 3, 1971, Bernard Derode (
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, April 19, 1937), and secondly at
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, February 23, 1974, Olivier Jacques Marie Nodé-Langlois (
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, March 20, 1943) ** Nadine Marie Catalina Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, September 14, 1941), married in
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, November 5, 1970, Henri Alain Charles Coeur Marie Comte Rouillé d'Orfeuil (
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, June 28, 1946) ** Jacques-Marie Louis Pedro Decazes de Glücksberg ( Savigné-l'Evêque, December 19, 1944), married at Remaucourt, June 20, 1975, Bernadette Marie Constant (Remaucourt, June 23, 1947) ** Jean-Marie Élie Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, March 6, 1949), married April 19, 1998, Corinne Missipo-Bebey (Douala, Cameroun, July 14, 1958) *** Louis-Jean Decazes de Glücksberg (Paris, January 26, 2001) * Marie Catherine Isabelle Séverine Germaine Marguerite Marie Decazes de Glücksberg ( Savigné-l-Evêque, April 26, 1918 -
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, November 28, 1968), married in
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, June 3, 1948, Jehan Ludovic James Achille de Nouë (
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, June 17, 1907 -
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, April 7, 1999) * Marie Yveline Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, June 23, 1920 -
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, September 8, 1984), married firstly civilly at
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, April 24 and religiously at
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, April 27, 1943, and divorced at
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, August 19, 1949) Michel Joseph de Geofroy (
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, February 28, 1913 - February 4, 1989), and secondly in
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, July 27, 1956, and divorced at
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, August 29, 1966) Henri Joseph David Mojonnet ( Montreux-le-Chatelard, September 10, 1917) * Édouard Edmond Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, May 22, 1921), married in
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, November 4, 1950, Caroline Triplett Scott (
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, April 22, 1938), and had: ** Marie-Caroline Germaine Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, October 21, 1951), married in 1985 Bruno van Herpen ** Marguerite Marie Egédie Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, October 21, 1955), married in
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, October 8, 1988, Christophe Slaboszewicz (
Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...
, July 20, 1958) ** Frédéric Charles Louis Patrick Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, July 20, 1958 -
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, January 29, 2018), married in 1990 Catherine Chou ** Lucie Henriette Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, February 17, 1961), unmarried and without issue ** Diane Douce Élisabeth Decazes de Glücksberg (
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, February 3, 1963 -
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, September, 1988), unmarried and without issue


References


Pont-d'Ouilly municipal website with the history of Haras d'Ouilly
(French language) {{DEFAULTSORT:Decazes, Louis Jean, duc 1889 births 1941 deaths Sportspeople from Paris
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