Magdeleine Goüin
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Magdeleine Goüin, countess Bernard de Ganay (2 March 1901 – 30 June 1949) was a French racing driver and philanthropist.
Early life
[edit]Goüin was born 2 March 1901 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. She was a daughter of Édouard Goüin[1] and Suzanne du Buit (future countess of Segur-Lamoignon), and the sister of Henry Goüin, president of the Fondation Royaumont.[2]
Career
[edit]As a racing driver, Goüin won the Rallye Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin in 1930 at the wheel of a Renault Reinastella type RM.[3] She finished second the following year at the Rally Paris-Amsterdam behind Suzanne Deutsch de La Meurthe.
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She became vice-president of the Automobile Club féminin de France, which was presided over at the time by Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart.[4]
Philanthropy
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Goüin established and hosted "“The Rosy”, a charity tea party which raised funds for the work of Visiting Nurses of France (founded by her mother-in-law the Marquise de Ganay) and the dispensary of the Nelly-Martyl Foundation of the rue de Belleville. The tea parties were often held in luxury hotels, like the Hotel George V in Paris.[5][6][7]
Personal life
[edit]In 1919, she married Count Bernard de Ganay, president of Polos de France, son of the Marquis Jean de Ganay and Berthe de Béhague and grandson of Etienne, Marquis de Ganay.[8][9]
She died on 30 June 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco, age 48.
Her granddaughter Christine de Ganay was first married to Pal Sarkozy, and then to Frank G. Wisner. Goüin’s great-grandchildren include Olivier Sarkozy.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ Augustin Hamon, The Masters of France, Volume 3 , 1938
- ^ Le Gonidec, Nathalie (2009). "Des Batignolles à Royaumont" (PDF). royaumont-archives-et-bibliotheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "The car practice, Volume 26", 1930
- ^ H-g, Rachel (29 November 2022). "Speedqueens: The Automobile Club Feminin". Speedqueens. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ "Modes: illustrated monthly magazine of decorative arts applied to women", 1933
- ^ "The Living Art, Numbers 162 to 167", 1932
- ^ "The Woman of France", 1933
- ^ Rang-Ri Park-Barjot (2005). La Société de construction des Batignolles : des origines à la Première guerre mondiale, 1846–1914. Roland-Mousnier (in French). Vol. 24. preface by Jean Monville. Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. pp. preface 7 of 298. ISBN 978-2-840-50389-7. OCLC 948985809.
- ^ Burnel, Anne (1995). La Société de construction des Batignolles de 1914–1939 : histoire d'un déclin (in French). Vol. 41. Genève: Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-600-00094-9. OCLC 33950103.
- ^ Stanislas de Larminat, Le maréchal Louis-Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, 1795–1878:sa famille et ses alliances, 1983
- ^ de Ganay family on the site ghyka.org
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