Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing
Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Giscard d'Estaing, is the wife of former President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.Biography
Though she bears no noble title, she is a daughter of François Marie Joseph Abel Henri Sauvage, comte de Brantes, who died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 8 May 1944, and his wife, the former Princess Aymone Marie Sylvie Renée Françoise 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 aunt of Roger Marie Joseph Henri Sauvage de Brantes, the present Marquis de Brantes. Through her mother she is a great-great-granddaughter of Cuban business magnate Tomás Terry y Adán.
Her great-grandfather was Henri Schneider, himself the son of Eugène Schneider, founder of what would become the international syndicate, Schneider Group.Ancestry
