Martha Marie Élisabeth Antoine de Chimay (née Manset; 20 March 1926 – 2 August 2023) was a French-born Belgian writer and princess.
[1] She wrote a work on Thérésa Tallien as well as an autobiography.
Born in Bordeaux on 20 March 1926, she was the daughter of Octave Manset and Marie-Charlotte Guestier, whose families were in the wine business.
On 18 December 1947, she married Élie de Riquet, Prince de Chimay, a descendant of Pierre-Paul Riquet, the engineer responsible for constructing the Canal du Midi.
[2] A close friend of Fabiola of Belgium, de Chimay immersed herself in the heritage of the De Riquet de Caraman family [fr] and preservation of the archives of the Chimay Castle.