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Delamarre de Monchaux was the daughter of Théodore Didier Delamarre, a painter, and Mathilde Lyautey. She was the granddaughter of General Hubert Joseph Lyautey and Théodore-Casimir Delamarre, a banker and politician, respectively.
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