Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis de Belbeuf
Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis de Belbeuf (27 May 1850 – 22 January 1906) was the 6th and last Marquis de Belbeuf and married French aristocrat Mathilde de Morny. Biography Raoul Pierre Joseph Jacques Godart de Belbeuf was born on 27 May 1850, the son of Pierre Claude Raoul Godart de Belbeuf, Comte de Belbeuf (b. ca. 1820) and Camille Françoise Alix Siméon (1829-1898). His grandfather was Louis Godart, Marquis de Belbeuf (1791-1872). On 11 December 1881, in Madrid, Godart married Mathilde de Morny, a French aristocrat and artist. Both were gay and Godard used the marriage to cover his homosexuality as was common at the time. The marriage was unhappy, de Morny "hated him"; they separated on 30 March 1897 and divorced on 8 December 1903. The Godart family of Belbeuf was a noble family from Normandy. It owned for several centuries the land of Belbeuf, raised to a marquisate in 1719. The Godart were ennobled in 1587. In 1906, the death of Jacques Godart de Belbeuf ended the long male line of this name, the cousins having a different name.. Belbeuf Belbeuf owed its creation and its importance to the settlement of the Normans, around the middle of the