Marcella Rousseau

Marcella DuChamps Rousseau is the wife of the present Prince of Darren, Reny Rousseau. She had an illustrious career as a journalist with the Darren Tribune. She continues to contribute feature articles to the Sunday Tribune paper.

Marcella DuChamps was born on June 8th 1969. Her father John DuChamps was an electrical engineering consultant. Her mother June Marie Priest DuChamps was an exercise physiologists. She has two younger brothers: Evan born 1972 and Shane born 1977.

Marcella has been interested in journalism from her early years. She attended Digliane junior high, where she was the editor of the yearbook. Her high school years were spent at Santa Maria high school. Here she was a reporter, opinions editor and then editor in chief of the Mustang high school newspaper. She won numerous awards.

She attended the prestigious journalism school at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) where she majored print journalism. She was a Walter Williams Scholar. She won the 1989 Trojan sexual health college journalism award for a story about an African-American fraternities efforts to supply free condoms to Mizzou students. She still displays the award on her desk.

Marcella did three newspaper internships with the Omaha World Herald St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Kansas City Star. This lead to her first job as the political reporter at theSpringfield NewsLeader. She then moved back to the Omaha World Herald where she covered breaking news and politics. Her last 20 years as a reporter have been spent at the Darren Tribune covering politics and doing investigative news stories.

Her most famous article was exposing the U. S. governments role in the Alice Disaster. She won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.

As the wife of Renee Rousseau she has been politically active in the area of women's reproductive health. She is a big supporter of Pastor Wilhemena Baxter and a leader of Le grève du sexe. In 2002 and 2004 Marcella Rousseau led strikes against prohibiting women from going on Le Trajet (Les Hommes), and admittance of women to military schools. This has been a great embarrassment to Reny Rousseau as he had been elected on a stand of conservative libertarianism. However Marcella's leadership in the strikes has increased the support of Reny Rousseau's among women during election time. As Marona Bella Nicosia stated 'when you elect Rene we get Marcellla.'