Isabelle Le Maresquier was a French equestrian and a prominent socialite of Parisian high society from the late 1950s and during the 1960s.
Horseriding edit
A noted equestrian during the 1960s and 1970s,[1][2] she became the first woman to win in a mixed horserace on 8 November 1975.
Family edit
Born in Paris, she was a daughter of a prominent architect Noël Le Maresquier and Spanish noblewoman Conchita López de Tejada, granddaughter of a prominent architect Charles Lemaresquier, and a niece of French Prime Minister Michel Debré. Her family was referred to as French "state nobility" by Pierre Bourdieu.[3] She was the mother-in-law of the Chancellor of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg.[4]
References edit
- ^ Le Cheval: équitation et sports hippiques (p. 296), Larousse, 1966
- ^ Town & Country, Vol. 119, No. 4512, pp. 47 and 50
- ^ Pierre Bourdieu, The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch der gräflichen Häuser [Genealogical Handbook of the Comital Houses]. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Vol. XVIII/139. Limburg an der Lahn: C. A. Starke Verlag. 2006. p. 375. ISBN 3-798-00839-6.