the title held by the head of the family, marquis de la coudraye, dating from 1707, was granted, by an 1876 act of succession, to the younger son of pacôme-françois le bailly, seigneur de la falaise, and his wife, pauline-louise-victoire de loynes, daughter of the marquis de la coudraye. la falaise inherited the title of marquis de la coudraye from his paternal grandfather, gabriel-césar-henri le bailly de la falaise, who, like his father, died in 1910 (the father died on april 4, the grandfather on august 6).