Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing

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Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Sauvage de Brantès (b. 10 April 1933) is the wife and distant cousin of former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

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Though she bears no noble title, she is a daughter of "Count" François Marie Joseph Abel Henri Sauvage de Brantès, son of the "Marquis de Brantès", who died in on Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 8 May 1944, and his wife, the former Princess Aymone Marie Sylvie Renée de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny, a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry by his mistress Amy Brown. She also is a great-niece of the Cuban-born French designer and architect José Emilio Terry y Dorticos and the sister of Paul Dominique Marie Joseph Sauvage de Brantès, the present Marquis de Brantès.

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Preceded by Claude Pompidou

First Lady of France 1974 - 1981

Succeeded by Danielle Mitterrand