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Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen, Countess du Planty et de Sourdis (1859 – 1927) was a French-born historicalnovelist, nonfiction author, and a syndicatednewspaper columnist who published under such pseudonyms asLa Marquise de Fontenoy andOfficier de l'Ordre de l'Instruction Publique de France[citation needed].
Marguerite de Godart, Countess du Planty et de Sourdis was born inMorbihan,Brittany, in 1859.[1] The daughter of Jules and Isaure de Godart, Count and Countess du Planty et de Sourdis, she first married a Swiss nobleman, Baron Gustave de Goumoëns,[2] and secondly,Frederick Cunliffe-Owen.
In 1885, the couple came on a secret diplomatic mission to the United States.[1] Shortly after arriving in the country, their European fortune was lost. Frederick eventually became foreign editor and latersociety editor of theNew York Tribune in 1889.[3]
Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen published a series of biographies and novels.[3] Several of her books dealing with the royal courts of Europe were published anonymously or under the nom de plume, La Marquise de Fontenoy, which was the name she used for a newspaper column that chronicled upper class society in a frank manner.[citation needed]
She died on 29 August 1927, a year after her husband's death, and left her estate to Dr. Edward F. Sutton, "for many years a member of the Cunliffe-Owen household".[4][5]
She was made an honorary member of the police honor legion of theNew York City Police Department in recognition of her volunteer work on behalf of wounded policemen.[5]
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