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    Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was...
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    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...
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  • with the name Balsan. Jean-Pierre Balsan bought it and gave it a second life. After he started working with his two sons Auguste and Charles, the company...
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  • Humbert Balsan as Gauvain (Gawain) Vladimir Antolek-Oresek as King Arthur Patrick Bernhard as Mordred Arthur De Montalembert as Lionel Charles Balsan Christian...
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    the former Gladys Deacon; while his mother went on to marry Col. Jacques Balsan. His mother was the only daughter and eldest child of William Kissam Vanderbilt...
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    Catholic.[citation needed] Consuelo subsequently married a Frenchman, Jacques Balsan. She died in 1964, having lived to see her son become Duke of Marlborough;...
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    and divorced in 1921. Later that year his mother married Lt. Col. Jacques Balsan, a wealthy French balloon, aircraft, and hydroplane pilot, and his father...
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    ex-cavalry officer and textile heir, Étienne Balsan. At the age of twenty-three, Chanel became Balsan's mistress, supplanting the courtesan Émilienne...
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  • Shepard, eldest daughter of Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard Jacques Balsan (1868–1956): 2nd husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt Grace Vanderbilt (1870–1953):...
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  • to leave the provincial city and reach Balsan's country estate. Here she accepts to have a liaison with Balsan, while still trying to assert her independence...
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