Andrée Lafayette

Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.

[1] Lafayette was born in 1903 to Julia Pâquerette Fossey and Paul Jules Auguste Godard.

[2] Describing Lafayette as "one of the most beautiful girls in France," author Richard Walton Tully brought her to the United States to star in the film Trilby (1923).

[3] On April 17, 1923, Lafayette married actor Arthur Max Constant.

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