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Does anyone know of the De Lessups family? the wife was featured on "real housewives of New York"?

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Does anyone know of the De Lessups family? the wife was featured on "real housewives of New York"?

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  1. Yes, I know of them. The wife has a very tacky attitude. No countess I know makes a very definite point of being addressed as such because it is tactless. LuAnn de Lesseps even has a show about being a countess but I don't think it entails anything "special" because she was a very, very normal person before she married her count.

    The Lesseps family were involved in the constructions of the Suez and Panama canals (the latter of which was a disaster). They were granted their nobility by Napoleon I although the below article indicates an uncle was ennobled by Louis XVI (this would have been another line though).

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