Marie Joseph Anatole Elie

Marie Joseph Anatole Elie, Prince de Caraman-Chimay (4 July 1858 – 25 July 1937) was the 19th Prince de Chimay from 1858 to 1937^[1] and a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.^[2]

He married Clara Ward, an American heiress, on 19 May 1890. They were divorced on 19 January 1897, after Clara ran away with a Gypsy violinist. The couple had two children:^[1]

• Marie Anatole Catherine Elisabeth, Comtesse de Caraman-Chimay (30 May 1891 – 13 February 1939), married Georges De Cocq in 1918
• Joseph Marie Pierre Anatole Alphonse de Riquet (6 August 1894 – 18 January 1920)

By a second marriage to Anne Marie Charlotte Amélie Gilone Le Veneur de Tillières (24 Jul 1889 – 22 Sep 1962) on 24 June 1920, he had two more children:^[1]

• Joseph Marie Alexandre Pierre Ghislain, 20th Prince de Chimay, Prince de Caraman (6 April 1921 – 23 June 1990), who resigned the title to his brother upon becoming a US citizen, married Germaine Hélène Jeanne van der Meulen in 1946, but died without issue
• Elie Marie Charles Pierre Paul, 21st Prince de Chimay, Prince de Caraman (22 October 1924 – 3 January 1980), married Marie Elisabeth Marthe Antoine Manset in 1947 and had issue

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