Isabelle Le Maresquier was a French equestrian and a prominent socialite of Parisian high society from the late 1950s and during the 1960s.

Horseriding

A noted equestrian during the 1960s and 1970s,''Town & Country'', Vol. 119, No. 4512, pp. 47 and 50 she became the first woman to win in a mixed horserace on 8 November 1975.

Family

Born in Paris, she was a daughter of the prominent architect

Noël Le Maresquier Noël Le Maresquier (6 August 1903 – 20 October 1982) was a French architect and one of the most prominent postwar architects of France. Career Born in Paris, he was the son of the prominent architect Charles Lemaresquier, and succeeded h ...

and Spanish noblewoman Conchita López de Tejada, and was the niece of French Prime Minister

Michel Debré Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 ...

. Her family was referred to as French "state nobility" by

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (, ; ; ; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influ ...

, ''The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power'' (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998 She was the mother-in-law of the Chancellor of Austria,

Alexander Schallenberg Alexander Georg Nicolas Schallenberg (; born 20 June 1969) is an Austrian diplomat, jurist, and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Austria), minister of foreign affairs from 2019 until 2025, briefly interrupted by a period ...

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