Magdeleine Goüin, countess Bernard de Ganay (2 March 1901 – 30 June 1949) was a French racing driver and philanthropist.
Goüin was born 2 March 1901 in the 8th arrondissementofParis. She was a daughter of Édouard Goüin[1] and Suzanne du Buit (future countess of Segur-Lamoignon), and the sister of Henry Goüin, president of the Fondation Royaumont.[2]
As a racing driver, Goüin won the Rallye Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin in 1930 at the wheel of a Renault Reinastella type RM. [3] She finished second the following year at the Rally Paris-Amsterdam behind Suzanne Deutsch de La Meurthe.
She became vice-president of the Automobile-Club Feminine de France, which was presided over at the time by Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart. [citation needed]
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Goüin created and animated the "tea Rosy", teas of charity which raised funds for the work of Visiting Nurses of France (founded by her mother-in-law the Marquise de Ganay) and the dispensary of the Nelly-Martyl Foundation of the rue de Belleville. [4][5][6]
In 1919, she married Count Bernard de Ganay, president of Polos de France, son of the Marquis Jean de Ganay and Berthe de Béhague and grandson of Etienne, Marquis de Ganay.[7][8]
She died on 30 June 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco, age 48.
Her granddaughter Christine de Ganay was first married to Pal Sarkozy, and then to Frank G. Wisner. Goüin’s great-grandchildren include Olivier Sarkozy. [9][10]
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