Anne d'Ornano | |
Office: | President of the General council of Calvados |
Term Start: | 1991 |
Term End: | 2011 |
Predecessor: | Michel d'Ornano |
Successor: | Jean-Léonce Dupont |
Office2: | Mayor of Deauville |
Term Start2: | 1977 |
Term End2: | 2001 |
Predecessor2: | Michel d'Ornano |
Successor2: | Philippe Augier |
Birth Name: | Anne de Contades |
Birth Date: | 7 December 1936 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Nationality: | French |
Party: | UDF |
Parents: | Arnaud de Contades Sonia Raoul-Duval |
Children: | Catherine d'Ornano Jean-Guillaume d'Ornano |
Anne d'Ornano (née de Contades; born 7 December 1936) is a French politician.
Contades was born on 7 December 1936 in Paris. She is the daughter of the Arnaud de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1907–1975), of the Château de Montgeoffroy in Anjou, France, and Sonia Raoul-Duval, the Marquise de la Rozière (1912–1997), of San Ángel, Mexico.[1] [2]
Her maternal grandparents were the Hon. Mrs. Fanny Lawrence Vernon of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, England (a daughter of the 7th Baron Vernon and American heiress Frances Venables-Vernon, Lady Vernon) and French polo player Maurice Raoul-Duval.[3] She was later installed as mayor of Deauville.[4]
She was the President of the General Council of the French department of Calvados.[5] She has been President of the department since 1991. She was a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) until the UDF dissolved in 2007, and she did not join either of the UDF's claimed successors: the New Centre and the MoDem. Unlike most centrists, she supported Nicolas Sarkozy by the first round of the 2007 election, over UDF candidate François Bayrou. However, she is not a member of Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Upon the death of her husband, she succeeded as President of the General Council. She also succeeded him as Mayor of Deauville in 1977, a post she held until 2001 when she retired in favour of Philippe Augier.
In September 1960, she married Count Michel d'Ornano, the eldest son of Count Guillaume d'Ornano.[3] They were the parents of Catherine d'Ornano and Jean-Guillaume d'Ornano.[6]
D'Ornano has been awarded the Legion of Honour, and is also a commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite.