page_title: Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart
section_title: Leisure activities
hierarchical_section_title: Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart / Career and philanthropy / Leisure activities
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La duchesse d'Uzès participant à une chasse à courre à Rambouillet (1913).
context_page_description: Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchess d'Uzès, was a wealthy French aristocrat. She inherited a large fortune from her great-grandmother, the founder of the Veuve Clicquot Champagne house. She was known for her involvement in feminist causes and charities, politics, sport hunting, automobiles and the arts, and was an accomplished author and sculptor.
context_section_description: The Duchess of Uzès was keen on sport hunting, and led the Rallye Bonnelles in the Rambouillet forest from the 1880s until her death.
  This caused her to be expelled from the Animal Protection Society.
  "Kings, princes and presidents of the Republic" attended the hunts that she arranged at her estate of Bonnelles.
  When aged 80, in July 1926 she took her oath at the Rambouillet Civil Court as Lieutenant de Louveterie, an official position related to regulation of hunting.
  In 1889 The Epoch (New York) wrote, "The Duchess, who is now a little over forty, is short and dumpy, and appears to best advantage when on horseback. She has a kindly, intelligent face, chestnut hair and laughing blue eyes... It was at Bonnelles that the Duchess received the Empress of Austria, who expressed her surprise and admiration at seeing a hunt organized and conducted by a woman with as much skill and perfection as though it had been arranged by a Master of the Hounds. At Paris the Duchess of Uzes inhabits the splendid mansion in the Champs-Élysées, once belonging to Queen Christine, of Spain, and where the ornamented ceilings are by Fortuny..."
  The Duchess of Uzès was one of the first clients of Émile Delahaye, a pioneer of the automobile industry. In 1898, she was the first women in France to obtain a driver's license, and in 1899 was the first to receive a speeding ticket. She had driven at 15 kilometres per hour (9.3 mph) in the Bois de Boulogne where the speed limit was 12 kilometres per hour (7.5 mph).  She was president of the Aeroclub Ladies' Committee.
caption: Duchesse d'Uzès hunting at Rambouillet (1913)
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