Marguerite Yourcenar, a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, and the first woman elected to the Académie française, is the daughter of Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, from the Cartier family related to the Cartier castle.
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Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, Marguerite Yourcenar's uncle, who served as the Belgian ambassador in China at the start of the 20thcentury (1910-1917), ordered the construction of a Cartier castle replica, to serve as the Belgian legation building in Beijing.
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