Early Life
La Falaise was the eldest son and second child of Louis Gabriel Venant Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1866-1910), a three time Olympics gold-medallist in fencing and former Army officer. His mother was the former Henriette Frédérique Hennessy (1873-1965), scion of the Cognac family. La Falaise inherited the title of Marquis de La Coudraye from his paternal grandfather, Gabriel-César-Henri Le Bailly de La Falaise, who, like his father, died in 1910 (the father died on 4 April, the grandfather on 6 August). His widowed mother married in 1912, as her second husband, Count Antoine Hocquart de Turtot (1872—1954), a cavalry officer and major French horse-racing figure.
He had four full siblings:
- Louise Le Bailly de La Falaise (1894—1910)
- Henri James Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1898-1972), film director and producer, war hero and translator.
- Alain Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1905—1977). He was the first husband of fashion model Maxime de la Falaise and the father of fashion muse/designer Loulou de la Falaise.
- Richard Le Bailly de La Falaise, Ecuyer (1910—died at Buchenwald in 1945)
He also had a half-sibling:
- Henriette-Hyacinthe-Olympe-Geneviève Hocquart de Turtot (born circa 1913)
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