Carmen Barajas Sandoval

During the French Revolution (1789–1799), Bragny left France and settled in Campeche, Campeche, Viceroyalty of New Spain.

His father was the grandson of Fernando De Barajas Y De Fernán Nuñez, Count of Barajas.

"We cannot consider ourselves as civilized people until every form of discrimination has been eradicated. Women have been abused and discriminated for thousands of years because men believed we were second class humans. Even today in the 21st century, people in some countries still have the stupid idea that having a Baby Girl as a first born is a misfortune and let the baby die. This abomination has to be eradicated before anyone can call themselves as civilized.

I also have said over and over again that everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong just because they happen to be persons of the same sex.

I also believe that no one can discriminate anybody just because they happen to worship a god who has a different name, or to humiliate or abuse someone just because they have a different skin tone, a different nationality or a different culture... It's vital we understand that we humans inhabit this tiny planet together and if we are to survive, it will have to be together, or not at all.

In the end antiblack, antifemale, antigay and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.""

Carajas Sandoval is also a defender of capital punishment against rapists and killers and, along with her feminist group changed Mexican legislation in order to apply stronger punishment against violence towards women.

Carajas Sandoval has been well known among the Mexican and international jet set.

In her autobiography Gracias a la Vida she tells how she became friends with some of the most important people in Mexico's show business, politics, presidents and multimillionaires.

Among her pretenders we can count Hollywood producer Ben Reyes, and Hollywood star Charles Korvin.

Among her closest friends you can count some of the most important and influential people in Mexico.

Carmen Barajas Sandoval (Countess of Bragny. Countess of Barajas) (May 19, 1925 - November 5, 2014) was a Mexican aristocrat, film executive producer, best-selling author and internationally known socialite, famous for her Mexican and international films and later in her life, by her biographies of stars such as María Félix and Jorge Negrete.

She was born Maria Del Carmen Barajas Y De Sandoval Paullada in Mexico City, Mexico.

Her parents were Lorenzo Barajas and Edelmira Sandoval Paullada Escoffier.

Her mother was a descendant of Charles Louis Escoffier, Count of Bragny, a member of the House of Bourbon-Montpensier.

He was a director of the Royal Academy of Surgery and personal physician to Louis XVI of France.

Barajas Sandoval was born on May 18, 1925, in Mexico City as a member of an old and aristocratic family from French and Spanish origins.

She was the first born of a total of the 4 children that Edelmira De Sandoval Y Paullada Escoffier and Lorenzo Barajas y De Fernán Nuñez had.

The family home was located in the premises that today holds Mexico city's Stamp Museum.

After a few years, the family moved to the new and luxurious neighborhood called "Chapultepec Heights" now known as " Lomas de Chapultepec" where the family house still exists.

At a very young age she met Jorge Negrete and became a very close friend of the actor's family.

When Carajas Sandoval was 15 years old, she asked him to give her a summer job as his assistant and immediately fell in love with the cinema industry where she worked for the vast majority of her life, working mostly as a producer.

Due to this friendship, and to her important career in the film industry, Barajas Sandoval became friends with some of the most important people in Mexican Show Business, such as María Félix, Dolores del Río, Miroslava and Pedro Infante.

She was responsible for introducing the later to Jorge Negrete and therefore helped launch Infante's career.

In 1947, she married Luis Alfonso Lavalle but the marriage ended in divorce only six years later.

Barajas Sandoval was related to 84 productions both in Mexico and internationally, working in the executive production department at Matouk Films and in 1960, she founded, along with some friends and family members, a company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films.

They made several productions among we can count Batalla en el paraíso (A Battle in Paradise), A la sombra del Sol (In The Shadow of the Sun) & Vagabundo en la lluvia (Stranger in the Rain), Tiburoneros (Shark Hunters), Tlayucan & Tarahumara.

These films were a huge success and won several international prizes, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1962 and the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964 for Tarahumara.

After this, Barajas Sandoval became a respected personality in the film industry and became a member at the Council of the Mexican Academy of Film.

Later in her life, along with her sister Edelmira, she created an haute couture atelier that quickly became a success in Mexico.

Her creations were considered to have the same high quality as any European designer.

International stars such as Sylvia Koschina, Christa Linder, and Angélica María wore her creations on several premieres and red carpets around the world.

Nevertheless, the partnership with her sister ended a few years later and Barajas Sandoval ultimately closed the atelier

In 1975, Carajas Sandoval was invited by her cousin, Anilú Elias Paullada to a feminist conference.

From the first moment she became a passionate feminist and joined the Movimiento Nacional de Mujeres (Women's National Movement).

During this time, this group made several and important contributions to help abused women both in Mexico and internationally.

"The feminist struggle is the most important one in history ever" said Carajas Sandoval who tells impressive numbers about abused women along history, both in her country and the world in her autobiographical book Gracias a la vida.

"I will never stop fighting to help anyone who is abused and discriminated" says Carajas Sandoval who is also a passionate defender of the rights of homosexuals, Colored and the Jewish people's rights, and believes that every person has the duty of doing likewise.

Due to her close relationship with France, and her efforts to improve the diplomatic affairs between France and Mexico, in 1986 Barajas Sandoval received the Légion d'honneur from President François Mitterrand at the Élysée Palace.

Some of her international friends are: Dolores del Río, Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand, HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Baron Alexis de Rédé, Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Jacques Gelman and his wife Natasha, Baron Richard Di Portanova, Count Paul of Ganay, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran, and his wife ex-Empress Farah Diba, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, the prominent French actor Gérard Philipe, Baron Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt von Cramm, Prince David Mdivani, Count Curt Heinrich Eberhard Erdmann Georg von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, Prince Pierre Raymond Doan, Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, Luis Buñuel, Jean Renoir, Liliane Bettencourt and director Luis Alcoriza.