Hubert d'Ornano

Count Hubert d'Ornano (31 March 1926 – 25 September 2015) was a French industrialist who co-founded Sisley.

Early life Hubert was born on 31 March 1926 at the family castle in Mełgiew in Świdnik, Poland but moved to France at the age of eight. He was a son of Elisabeth d'Ornano and Count Guillaume d'Ornano, a co-founder of Lancôme in 1935 (which was acquired by L'Oreal in 1964). His elder brother was Count Michel d'Ornano, who served as Minister of Culture under Prime Minister Raymond Barre.

Hubert studied law at La Sorbonne university in Paris.

Career In 1954, Hubert and his elder brother, Michel, founded Jean d'Albret, a perfume company that produced scents such as Écusson, Rafale, and Lavande. began developing the company into "the fastest-growing treatment line in Neiman Marcus, where, alongside Bergdorf Goodman, it was sold exclusively in the U.S."

Philanthropy In 2007, Count d'Ornano and his wife created the Sisley-d'Ornano Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, to "deliver charity work and philanthropy across sectors in France and abroad." The Foundation assisted with the restoration of the fresco of the Church of Our Lady Assumption, the seat of the Polish Mission in Paris.

Personal life On 6 July 1963, d'Ornano married Countess Isabelle Potocki (b. 1937) at Deauville, France. She was a daughter of Count Józef Alfred Potocki and Princess Krystyna Maria Radziwiłł (a daughter of Prince Janusz Radziwiłł). Isabella's uncle was Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, who married Caroline Lee Bouvier (sister to First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). Her sister, Countess Dorota Potocki, married skier Luis Arias Carralón. Together, they were the parents of: he became chairman of Sisley in 2013. Countess Maria Laetitia d'Ornano (1970–2013), studied human ecology.

Their Paris apartment was located on the tree-lined Quai d'Orsay in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, overlooking the Seine.