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| - The ancestors of Xavier de la Chevalerie are mainly French and Belgian. His father, Christian de la Chevalerie (1895–1966), a Belgian native, once a director of a Champagne-maker Company, married a French girl, Alyette de Beaulaincourt (1890–1976). In 1916, as a wounded of the Belgium Royal military forces, being treated at the hospital of Mortain (Manche), Christian met his wife, a native of Mayenne. Xavier de la Chevalerie is the nephew of Xavier de Beaulaincourt, Benedictine monk, who was a friend of the General de Gaulle at the school of the Immaculate Conception, rue de Vaugirard in Paris.
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| - The ancestors of Xavier de la Chevalerie are mainly French and Belgian. His father, Christian de la Chevalerie (1895–1966), a Belgian native, once a director of a Champagne-maker Company, married a French girl, Alyette de Beaulaincourt (1890–1976). In 1916, as a wounded of the Belgium Royal military forces, being treated at the hospital of Mortain (Manche), Christian met his wife, a native of Mayenne. Xavier de la Chevalerie is the nephew of Xavier de Beaulaincourt, Benedictine monk, who was a friend of the General de Gaulle at the school of the Immaculate Conception, rue de Vaugirard in Paris. Xavier de la Chevalerie is the cousin of Xavier de Beaulaincourt (1920–2003), nephew of the former, private secretary of General de Gaulle (1958–1970). By his father side, he is the cousin of Guy Daufresne de la Chevalerie (1904–2006), son of General Raoul Daufresne of Chevalerie, Olympic champion in 1920, Commander of the Belgian Royal Free Forces in the UK in 1941-1942. Soldier and diplomat, Guy Daufresne de la Chevalerie participated at the San Francisco Conference. Xavier de la Chevalerie is also the great grand nephew of the Belgian poet, Auguste Daufresne of Chevalerie. His sister, Édith de la Chevalerie (1918–1942), died on November 1942, the ship on which she had embarked from Buenos Aires (this one conveying free French soldiers) was sunk by the Kriegsmarine, 850 nautical miles from St. Helena (Island), in the Atlantic Ocean. Through his wife, Marie-Francoise Hislaire, of Belgian origin (1922-1985 - which will give him seven children), he is the step son of René Hislaire (1890–1951), journalist, critic and essayist.
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