Ida Erzebet Bertha Clemenceau

Ida Erzebet Bertha CLEMENCEAU, née MICHNAY: b. 9 May 1882, Galanta - d. 7 May 1983, La Réorthe

Details from actual Galanta birth/baptism registration, viewable courtesy of:

1882.05.09 - Ida Erzebet Bertha MICHNAY - Galanta BR:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y39N-CL3?cc=1554443

Father: Jenö MICHNAY, evang.

Mother: Emila BIRNBAUM, evang.

Witnesses: Gyula HORVÁTH & Ilona FEHER?

N.B. painted portrait by Lajos KUNFFY:

Dr. jur Lajos Kúnffy von Somogytür

• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Jan 23 2017, 15:08:41 UTC

Also cf. newspaper articles about her father Eugen MICHNAY.

Most present details about the fact that his "Hungarian" daughter Ida was married to a son of the celebrated George CLEMENCEAU (just as this individual's younger brother Paul had also chosen a Hungarian wife in Vienna - Sophie SZEPS).

Eugen MICHNAY is described as having been 82 years old at the time of his death, that he had been "Bezirksrichter"/"Gerichtsrat" and then "Stuhlrichter" and involved in the Dioszegh sugar factory in the Galanta area, owned by Baron Karl KUFNER, a friend of Georges CLEMENCEAU. Ida MICHNAY's husband Michel CLEMENCEAU was a qualified chemist and engineer and, in order to pursue his studied into the sugar manufacturing industry of Austria-Hungary he had spent some time in the Galanta refinery. This was apparently arranged by Karl KUFNER himself, during an encounter with Georges CLEMENCEAU in Karlsbad, where both gentlemen generally enjoyed regular annual stays "to take the waters" and otherwise relax and refresh themselves before the outbreak of the first World War.

Emphasis is placed also on Ida as being a particularly pretty lady - indeed, one newspaper declares that the "tizianblonde, milchweisse, veilchenäugige" Ida von MICHNAY is named "das schönste Mädchen des Landes" - and in another there is a nice mention of Michel CLEMENCEAU referring to his two Hungarian sons, Pierre and Georges, as being "mes petits Rákoczis".

Various examples courtesy of:

N.B. These two first articles were written in the year before Eugen MICHNAY's death.

ANNO, Pester Lloyd, 1917-11-18, Seite 6

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=pel&datum=19171118&quer...

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ANNO, Neues Wiener Journal, 1917-11-27, Seite 6

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwj&datum=19171127&quer...

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Salzburger Volksblatt: unabh. Tageszeitung f. Stadt u. Land Salzburg, 1918-08-16, Seite 4

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=svb&datum=19180816&quer...

ANNO, Linzer Volksblatt, 1918-08-10, Seite 4

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=lvb&datum=19180810&quer...

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ANNO, (Neuigkeits) Welt Blatt, 1918-08-11, Seite 6

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwb&datum=19180811&quer...

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ANNO, Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, 1918-08-09, Seite 5

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=waz&datum=19180809&quer...