Marthe Bibesco
Princess Marthe Lucie Bibesco de Brancovan (born 28 January 1886 in Bucharest, † November 29, 1973 in Paris) was a French writer.
Life
Martha Lucia Lahovary was the third child of the Romanian ambassador in Paris Ion Lahovary and his wife, the Greek princess Emma Maurokordato. She grew up alternately on the family property in Baloteşti and the fashionable Biarritz on the French Atlantic coast. The Education of Martha Lucia, known in the family - Marthe Lucie was closely monitored by the parents. It was considered a precocious and highly intelligent. In 1900, the only 14 -year-old Marthe Lucie was introduced to the Parisian society; while it was also presented to the Crown Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen.
In 1902, Marthe Lucie Lahovary married her cousin in Bucharest 3rd degree, the Prince George III. Valentin Bibesco (1880-1941), a son of Iorgu Bibesco and Valentine Riquet, Comtesse de Caraman - Chimay. From the marriage, which by all accounts was unhappy, a daughter emerged. In the first years of their marriage Marthe Lucie found solace in reading and writing (pseudonym Lucile Decaux ). Later, the couple led an open relationship; known are the affairs of the Princess Bibesco with the Romanian King Ferdinand I, the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. , the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle.
In the later years Marthe Lucie cultivated the acquaintance of some artists, including Edith Wharton, Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, Anatole France, Rainer Maria Rilke, Enid Bagnold, Paul Valéry and Paul Claudel. One of her closest friends was the Abbé Mugnier Arthur; through him she converted to Catholicism. Princess Marthe Lucie Bibesco de Brancovan died at her home on the Ile Saint -Louis in Paris.