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Louis Jacques Balsan (September 16, 1868 – November 4, 1956) was a French aviator and industrialist, born at Châteauroux (Indre) in 1868, who was the second husband of society beauty Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough.
Louis Jacques Balsan est un aviateur français, pionnier de l’aéronautique, né à Châteauroux le 16 septembre 1868 et mort à New York le 4 novembre 1956 des suites d’une insolation.
8 de ene. de 2021 · Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-year-old Frenchman and future aviation pioneer, Jacques Balsan, first saw her and fell in love. It would be nearly another 26 years before the two would finally marry in 1921 and Consuelo would find happiness with Jacques in France, and later in Southampton.
10 de nov. de 2019 · Consuelo would soon join them with a home of her own there. In addition, a certain French aviator had caught her eye and eventually her heart, in the form of one Colonel Jacques Balsan. Consuelo had a house built at 9 Rue Charles Floquet in 1912, paid for out of her father’s endless coffers.
Consuelo's second wedding, on 4 July 1921, was to Lt. Col. Jacques Balsan, a record-breaking pioneer French balloon, aircraft, and hydroplane pilot who once worked with the Wright Brothers. Also a textile manufacturing heir, Balsan was the younger brother of Étienne Balsan, an early lover of Coco Chanel. [35]
Jacques Balsan, que aterrizó en Pomerania en el Reino de Prusia, fue segundo con una distancia de 1222 km. [8] El 9 de octubre se disputó una competición final de duración y distancia con los mejores pilotos de las 14 pruebas anteriores.
El segundo matrimonio de Consuelo, el 4 de julio de 1921, fue con el teniente coronel Jacques Balsan, un pionero francés de globo, avión y piloto de hidroavión, que trabajó con los hermanos Wright.
