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Françoise Dior

Françoise Dior
Dior and Jordan (Greyscale).jpg
Dior and Colin Jordan on their wedding day
Born Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior
7 April 1932
Paris, France
Died 20 January 1993(1993-01-20) (aged 60)
Neuilly sur Seine, France
Cause of death Lung cancer
Other names Françoise de Caumont La Force
Françoise Dior-Jordan
Françoise Dior-de Mirleau
Known for Heiress, post-war Nazi underground financier
Spouse(s) Robert-Henri Nompar, Comte de Caumont La Force
(m. 1955; div. 1960)

Colin Jordan
(m. 1963; div. 1963)

Comte Hubert de Mirleau
Children 1
Parent(s) Raymond Dior
Relatives Maurice Dior (paternal grandfather)
Christian Dior (paternal uncle)
Catherine Dior (paternal aunt)

Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior, also known as Françoise de Caumont La Force, Françoise Dior-Jordan, and Françoise Dior-de Mirleau (7 April 1932 – 20 January 1993), was a French socialite and post-war Nazi underground financier. She was a close friend of Savitri Devi and niece of French fashion designer Christian Dior and Catherine Dior; Catherine was deported to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp for her anti-Nazi intelligence work, and later publicly distanced herself from her niece.

Born in Paris, Dior was the only child of Raymond Dior, a Communist International sympathizer who embraced radicalism and subversive ideas. He was a proponent of the '200 families' theory in that all the world's problems rest with them. Being an heir to the Dior Frères fertilizer fortune, he married the former Madeleine Leblanc. Raymond was the brother of Christian Dior.

Françoise grew up in France during the Nazi occupation, and a historian has stated "one of [Françoise Dior's] sweetest memories was the compliment of an SS-man, 'What a beautiful little Aryan girl.'"

Dior resided back and forth between France and England for a period of time in the 1960s, where she financed Nazi movements and became romantically involved with their leadership. The former countess traveled to London, in the summer of 1962, after reading about the National Socialist Movement's rallies; that same year, she used her fortune to support the creation of the French chapter of the World Union of National Socialists. She was able to bring on former Waffen SS officers as leaders in 1963.

Thereafter she became intimately involved with British Nazis and supported their front activities in the country. During the 1980s, British fascist Martin Webster made two visits to Paris, and she gave him some money to help fund the short-lived Our Nation group that he had founded following his expulsion from the British National Front.


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