{{Short description|French heiress and socialite (1857–1943)}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Marie Say | title = Princess Henri Amédée de Broglie <br> Princess Luis Fernando of Orléans | image = Princesse Marie de Broglie.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 25 August 1857 | birth_place = Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, France | death_date = {{death-date and age|15 July 1943|25 August 1857}} | death_place = Paris, France | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = | employer = | occupation = Aristocrat | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Prince Henri Amédée de Broglie<br/>Prince Luis Fernando of Orléans | issue = 5 (Albert, Antoinette, Jacques, Robert and Marguerite) }}
'''Marie Say''' (1857–1943) was a French heiress and socialite. thumb|right|Château de Chaumont.
==Early life== Marie Say was born on 25 August 1857 in Verrières-le-Buisson near Paris. Her paternal grandfather, Louis Auguste Say, was the founder of the Say sugar company (now a subsidiary of Tereos). Her father, Constant André Say, ran the family business, which sold sugar made from beetroot.<ref name=lemonde25mai>{{cite news|last1=Le Tigre|first1=Olivier|title=25 mai 1908 : Marie Say, le sacre de la princesse du sucre|url=http://ilyaunsiecle.blog.lemonde.fr/2008/05/25/25-mai-1908-marie-say-le-sacre-de-la-princesse-du-sucre/|accessdate=December 11, 2015|work=Le Monde|date=May 25, 2008|archive-date=May 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090512134201/http://ilyaunsiecle.blog.lemonde.fr/2008/05/25/25-mai-1908-marie-say-le-sacre-de-la-princesse-du-sucre/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her granduncle, Jean-Baptiste Say, was an economist and formulator of Say's law.
Her sister, Jeanne (1848–1916), married Roland, Marquis de Cossé-Brissac (1843–1871), and her brother, Henry (1855–1899), succeeded his father at the Say refinery.
==Adult life== Say purchased the château de Chaumont with her inheritance in 1875, at the age of seventeen.<ref name=domainehistoire>{{cite web|title=LE CHÂTEAU DE CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE|url=http://www.domaine-chaumont.fr/chateau_chateau-chateau?scat=5a&expandable=2|website=Domaine Chaumont|accessdate=December 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226125311/http://domaine-chaumont.fr/chateau_chateau-chateau?scat=5a&expandable=2|archive-date=December 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ducdebrissacbio>{{cite book|last=de Cossé Brissac|first=Pierre|title=La suite des temps: (1939–1958)|date=1974|publisher=Grasset|location=Paris, France|isbn=9782246798514|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a46u5GLOopkC&dq=princesse+%22Marie+Say%22&pg=PT53|accessdate=December 6, 2015}}</ref> Shortly after, she married Prince Amédée de Broglie,<ref name=lemonde25mai/> at the Eglise de la Madeleine in Paris.<ref name=lemonde25mai/> They had five children (Albert, Antoinette, Jacques, Robert and Marguerite) together.
Say became known as Princess Amédée de Broglie.<ref name=ducdebrissacbio/> The couple entertained George V, Isabella II of Spain and the Shah of Iran as guests,<ref name=lemonde25mai/> receiving the gift of an elephant from another guest, Jagatjit Singh.<ref name=lemonde25mai/> The couple organized performances by the Paris Opera and the Comédie-Française for their guests.<ref name=lemonde25mai/> They also resided at the Hôtel de Broglie, an ''hôtel particulier'' in Paris.<ref name=ducdebrissacbio/>
Say was widowed in 1917.<ref name=ducdebrissacbio/> In London on 19 September 1930 she non-dynastically married the former Spanish infante, Prince Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón, he being then 41 years old and she 72 years old.<ref name="ghda">Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser VIII. "Spanien". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1968, pp. 213–214. (German), (French). {{ISBN|978-3-7980-0849-6}}.</ref> According to Pierre de Cossé, Duc de Brissac, her second husband spent the vast majority of her fortune.<ref name=ducdebrissacbio/>
==Death== Say died on 15 July 1943 in Paris.<ref name="ghda"/>
==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |1= 1. '''Marie Say''' |2= 2. Constant André Say |3= 3. Jeanne Marie Emilie Wey |4= 4. Louis Auguste Say |5= 5. Constance Maressal |6= 6. Julien Wey |7= 7. Eugènie Françoise Elisabeth Glady |8= 8. Jean Étienne Say |9= 9. Françoise Brun de Castanet |10= 10. Charles Isidore Maressal |11= 11. Marie Opportune Homassel |12= 12. Jean Baptiste Wey |13= 13. Marie Françoise Foucherot |14= 14. Jean Pierre Glady |15= 15. Caroline Françoise Steinheil }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Princesses of Orléans by marriage}} {{Authority control}}
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