The coffins of Mélinée and Missak Manouchian, surrounded by installations representing their FTP-MOI Resistance comrades, during the ceremony to admit the couple to the Panthéon, Paris, February 21, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
Capturing Beauty
Autobiography of a Pre-Raphaelite Brother and Sister
by
John Presco
Copyright 2024
The Anjou Kiss
Nine years ago Mark Gall, Virginia Hambley, and I went together to an event, that eludes my memory. Afterwards, Mark suggested Virginia and I go visit his son who was in a rest home nearby. We did. Jon did not look happy to see us. He never met Virginia, and would not look at her. A year or two later, I go visit Jon Gall and his mother at another rest home. Upon seeing me – he shouts incoherently and pulls the life-giving tube out of his stomach. Jon is rushed to Riverbend hospital where I went with the Galls when it was first opened. I was still considered an honorary member of the Gall family.
Several days ago I made an image of the three of us after seeing the diplomatic chaos that the Bibi Zionist Gang has perpetuated, this long battle – over the land!. With pressure from President Biden, Netanyahu said he would consider rebuilding Gaza, but not as a sovereign state. It appears the Zionist Gang want payback for what the Nazis did, and revenge for a long bitter history of savage Anti-Semitism by European Gentiles – beginning with Godfrey de Bullion’s conquest of Jerusalem. Virginia Hambley descends from Falk de Anjou? Her ancestor was a Knight of the Crescent, an order founded by Rene De Anjou, the titular King of Jerusalem. The De Bourmonts owned castle sin France.
When I helped Virginia trim the grape vine that grew on the arbor in from of her home, she told me she visited the Bourmonts in France after she graduated from school. They owned a ancient winery. I google her family, and confronted my dear friend.
“You didn’t tell me – you stayed in castles!”
After forming a bond with Virgian, she put me on the phone with Clark Hambely, a commercial artist. Right away, he makes a case why he and his wife, did not get along.
I was stationed in France. I was a pilot. I rescued Elizbeth de Bourmont. She did tell me her father was .Vichy and fought with the Nazis!”
Virginia said her father had a drinking problem. He would come home and berate The Traitor he married, who born him three children. I told Vigina I wanted us to have a child. she said that was impossbile – because her mother forced her to get her tube tied after she forced her to get an abortion. I was shocked – and angy!
“Why?”
“I was in a terrible accident when I was twenty and at college. They pulled me out from under a dead classmate. I was in a coma for twenty-six days. My sister stayed by my side. Mummy was afraid I would leave my infant in the bath. I suffered from a severe head injury – with memory loss!”
I helped Virginia with many things. I attended a head injury group with her, and had coffee with members at The Beanery. Her life manager told me he family abandoned her. They did not want her in a home on the East Coast. I met Elizabeth several times when she came to stay for a week. She thanked me for being her daughter’s companion who did things for her – for free! Elizabeth would late hire caregivers for her daughter, paid for by the large settlement in the lawsuit. Virginia was a millionaires, but her mother dolled out just enough for her to get by. Virginia was broke at the end of then month. I leant her money. I was forever buying her coats and backpacks after she left them – somewhere. She forgot where/ In my favorite restaurant, Virginia got down on one knee, and proposed to me. I knew she would forget, so I made a video. A week later
Good King Rene and his court, were into King Arthur and his court. The Pre-Raphaelites did several panting of Rene’s new queen giving him a kiss on their honeymoon. They are looking at plans for their Camelot. When my sixteen year old daughter came into my life, she came to take everything my family owed her, especially the fame and fortune my famous dead sister put on thi earth. I had no money to give her. She and the Hansoms wanted noe of my fame, because it did not come -with money! I was working on family trees. They knew Heather was my daughter, and not the daughter of Delpiano. They believed all the talented genes ran in the Hanson branch, and, somehow we Prescos ended up with their limelight – and money. Heather Hanson is my Mordred, the product of incest, that fills the biography of Rosamond, written by a paid ghost writer. A neighbor read about my family incest, a day ago. It is – shocking that a person who did not know Christine Rosamond Benton, and grow up with her family, gets to tell the world about our deepest darkest secrets.
In 2015 I called Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, and told her my good friend and her family are carrying the guilt of their ancestor who fought alongside the Nazis as a noble member of the Vichy government. Below is her response – that is so ver fresh nine years later, as France and Europe dear with their history of Antisemitism. A resistance fighter was honor at the Pantheon of France. This brave may have fought against Victor de Bourmont, alongside his relative, Pierre de Bourmont. This is the untold Civil War, that France sweeps under the carpet. What conquered people will do, when they find they are under the power and spell of a charismatic dictator.
The focus of ‘Capturing Beauty,’ is the child Virginia and I did not give life to. I gave my fiancé’ The Louisiana Territory, in order to keep the Neo-Nazi Christian Nationalists from conquering, and owning – all of America. We…..I am the…..Resistance! I have not been able to reach Virginia. I wonder if she is dead. She forgot that I gave her all that land, once owned by her illustrious ancestor. Is Bibi’s Zionist Gang going to build home for Jews – in Gazaland?
If Virginia and I got legally married, I might be able to say, this very day…I am the King of Jerusalem! After saying this, it occurs to me that Putin drew up attack and conquer plans, years ago. I believe he has a blueprint for his grand entry into Paris, under the Arc de Triomphe. I believe plans to conquer the Gaza have existed for years, and will soon emerge from….The Grnad Darkness,
If Virigina and I had a son..his name would be Arthur! This is….his story!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press.
I just sent this message to Rabbi Ruhi Sophia….
Dear Rabbi. I am so happy to see the face and being I contacted in 2015 right after you became a rabbi. We spoke on the phone about the family of Virginia being members of the Vichy who murdered Jews. Other members joined the resistance. Franc just honored one of them. Our conversation is the hinge pin to my autobiography. In 1988, I declared myself a Nazarite, and talked to a rabbi a Hillel about converting to Judaism. Here is my blog on this matter.
Contact Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Through Website
Thank you for contacting Rabbi Ruhi Sophia. Someone will reach out to you soon.
B’shalom.
Bill Cornwall called me and said I was about to lose my daugher and six year old grandson. He called me a “parasite” a title members of the Tea Party love to use to divide our nation. Bill’s father was a higher up in the Tea Party – in Texas! I am positive the Cornwall family believes the Democrats stole the election and cheated their beloved Trump-David King our of his birthright. Let me say..
My daughter and her family knew Bill Cornwall and his father wanted me out of the picture, and wanted my grandson all to themselves – because Bill could not conceive a child. Either could Randall Delpiano whose name is on Heather’s birth certificate. Randy died childless. I told Patrice I wanted to have Delpiano removed from the name of my minor child who was sixteen when we first met. I did not know I concieved a child – with vivid blue eyes! Randy was a brown-eye Sicilian. I’m sure his mother and sister knew Randy did not sire Heather. That was the problem. His mother thought there was a curse on her son – from the Hanson family. Linda Comstock knew Randy could not sire a child – and thus Heather must be my child. Linda demanded I get a blood test – just incase I deny I sired Heather. Bill Comstock was a big shot attorney. Heather disappeared from my life when she was seventeen. She went and saw Shamus Dundon and his mother, Vicki Presco. Did Stacey Pierrot know this? Thanks to the law firm of Buck&Morris there appeared to be a Big Grab Bag going on, where outsiders held all the Family Power, and, thus could make you rich – somehow!
Dear Rabbi. I am so happy to see the face and being I contacted in 2015 right after you became a rabbi. We spoke on the phone about the family of Virginia being members of the Vichy who murdered Jews. Other members joined the resistance. Franc just honored one of them. Our conversation is the hinge pin to my autobiography. In 1988, I declared myself a Nazarite, and talked to a rabbi a Hillel about converting to Judaism. Here is my blog on this matter.
When Virginia Hambley de Bourmont got down on her wounded knee, took my hand, and proposed to me, was my long search for the Grail, at an end. Virginia descends from Geoffrey IV de la Tour Landry who compiled Livre pour l’enseignement de ses filles for the instruction of his daughters. This book is also titled ‘The Book of the Knight of the Tower’. Geoffrey may have authored Pontus and Sidonia a medieval prose roman that was put to song, thus, here is alas The Phantom of this Opera!
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry married Jeanne Le Rouge.
Victor de Bourmont was lieutenant in the 1930s in the Sharpshooters, in Tunisia. During the second world war, he joined the militia , which he was the Chief in Lyon (with Touvier under his command), and then the SS Charlemagne Division in 1944. He was promoted to Hauptsturmführer and commanded as the 57e infantry regiment of the division which opposed theRed Armyon the eastern front. He had under his command, among others, Henri Fenet. 57E Régiment was incorporated into the 32e German infantry division. The latter was commander in 1944-1945, lieutenant-general Hans Boeckh-Behrens
De Bourmont, Touvier said, ‘was very upset’ and Werner Knab, the Nazi secret police chief in Lyons, had ‘decided a spectacular execution of 100 Jews had to be carried out’ in reprisal for Henriot’s death. Touvier said de Bourmont persuaded the Germans that the affair was purely French and cut the number to 30. De Bourmont was ‘panic-stricken, and I was panic- stricken too’. Touvier added: ‘We tried to reduce the number . . . I said we would do seven at a time.’
“Missak Manouchian chose France twice, first as a young Armenian who loved Baudelaire and Victor Hugo, and then through the blood he shed for our country,” the French presidency said in a statement last year announcing the Panthéon homage.
Manouchian is the first foreign and first communist Resistance fighter to be inducted into the Panthéon, Peschanski noted.
His group led dozens of anti-Nazi attacks and sabotage operations in and around Paris between August and November 1943, including the assassination of a top German colonel.
Tracked down by the French police of the Vichy regime that collaborated with Nazi Germany, Manouchian was arrested on Nov. 16, 1943 along with most of the group’s members. He was sentenced to death in Feb. 1944.
Nazi propaganda officers ordered a poster to be made with the photos and names of 10 Resistance fighters, including Manouchian, displayed in Paris and other French cities.
The so-called Red Poster sought to discredit them as Jews, foreigners and criminals, and Manouchian was “obviously the first target,” Peschanski said. Yet the campaign didn’t convince the French population, he said: The poster, while “aiming at presenting them as assassins, made them heroes.”
This watercolour is a replica of the subject Brown painted to decorate a cabinet designed by John Pritchard Seddon, which was made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company, and is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. At Brown’s suggestion, the painted panels were based on imagined incidents in the honeymoon of King Rene of Anjou, as recounted by Walter Scott in his novel ‘Anna von Geierstein’. The four panels on the front of the cabinet illustrate King Rene’s renowned interest in the arts. Brown chose to evoke Architecture, showing the King considering the plans for his castle. The other three panels were painted by Rossetti (Music) and Burne-Jones (Painting and Sculpture).
The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme, or LVF) was a unit of the German Army (Wehrmacht) formed shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 by a coalition of small far-right political factions within Vichy France. Although its supporters were more explicitly supportive of Nazi ideology and close collaboration with Nazi Germany than the Vichy regime itself, the German authorities remained skeptical of incorporating French soldiers and limited the unit’s size significantly. Furthermore, it only succeeded in including 5,800 recruits between 1941 and its disbandment in 1944. It was also kept at arm’s length by the Vichy regime. The LVF participated in the Battle of Moscow in November–December 1941 but suffered heavy casualties and performed poorly in combat. For most of its existence, it was confined to so-called “bandit-fighting” operations (Bandenbekämpfung) behind the front line in German-occupied Byelorussia and Ukraine. The Tricolour Legion (Légion Tricolore) formed in France with Vichy support was later also absorbed into the LVF.[1] In early 1944, the unit again took part in rear-security operations. In June 1944, following the collapse of Army Group Centre‘s front during the Red Army‘s summer offensive, the LVF was attached to the 4th SS Police Regiment.[2]
Approximately 320 to 330 French troops arrived in Berlin on 24 April after a long detour to avoid advance columns of the Red Army.[12] On 25 April, Krukenberg was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C which included SS Division Nordland, whose previous commander, Joachim Ziegler, was relieved of his command earlier the same day.[13] Charlemagne was attached to Nordland whose two regiments had been decimated in the fighting. Both equaled roughly a battalion.[13] The Frenchmen walked from West to East Berlin, to a brewery near Hermannplatz. Here fighting began, with Hitler Youth firing Panzerfausts at Soviet tanks belonging to advance guards near the Tempelhof Airport.
Supported by Tiger II tanks and the 11th SS Panzer Battalion, men of Charlemagne took part in a counterattack on the morning of 26 April in Neukölln. The counterattack ran into an ambush by Soviet troops using a captured German Panther tank. The regiment lost half of the available troops in Neukölln on the first day. It later defended Neukölln’s Town Hall. Given that Neukölln was heavily penetrated by Soviet combat groups, Krukenberg prepared fallback positions for Sector C defenders around Hermannplatz. He moved his headquarters into the opera house. As SS Division Nordland withdrew towards Hermannplatz, the French under HauptsturmführerHenri Joseph Fenet and some attached Hitler Youth destroyed fourteen Soviet tanks; one machine gun position by the Halensee bridge held up Soviet forces for 48 hours.[14]
Today is the Jewish New Year. My mother and daughter were born on the 26th.
John
One more for the trail. Today is Roh Hashanah. The Day of Atonement will fall on October 4th. Seven years ago I talked to a woman rabbi, the first to be appointed in Oregon. My ex-fiancé’s family – made France. They owned the Louisiana Territory that Thomas Jefferson regretted buying. He never meant for our Democracy to expand beyond the thirteen States. I don’t think he was happy about slaves not being freed, and women not getting the vote. My fiancés family were members of the Vichy Government. I asked the rabbi about the guilt this family carries. She asked me if Virginia was personally responsible for the death of Jews? She wasn’t born. “Then she is without sin and guilt.”. After Virginnia got down on one knee and proposed marriage, I took her back to the same restaurant, got down on my knees, and proposed marriage. I told her she had asked my hand. She suffers from a head injury, and forgot. As a proposal gift, I gave her the Louisiana Territory. She forgot she owned it – the next day! I told her we were engaged – again! She didn’t belive me. I placed her ring near the telephone. “Do you see a ring near your phone?” Yes! Where did it come from?” I suggest the City Club discuss healthy ways to own our history, not matter how grand, or, how worth forgetting it
Collaborator Testifies on Killings of 7 Jews : World War II: The first Frenchman tried for crimes against humanity insists he ‘tried to find another solution.’
Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier, his voice barely a whisper at times, testified in his defense Tuesday, giving a detailed account of the decision to execute seven Jews during World War II and portraying himself as a troubled functionary acting only under German orders.
“Right to the end, I tried to find another solution,” said Touvier, 78, the first Frenchman ever brought to trial on charges of crimes against humanity. Shown photographs of the slain Jews, mouths and eyes wide open in death, Touvier sputtered, “These photos . . . it’s horrible.”
Touvier, the former intelligence chief of the pro-Nazi French militia, has been on trial for 10 days in a court in Versailles, where a jury of nine is deciding his fate. The maximum penalty under French law is life in prison.
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The trial, and the legal battle waged to bring Touvier to court after his arrest in 1989, has renewed a painful, 50-year-old debate in France over the Vichy government’s collaboration with the German occupation during World War II.
Touvier, who was hidden for 45 years by right-wing Catholic priests and monks, has admitted that he handpicked the men who executed the seven Jews in Rillieux-la-Pape, near Lyons, on June 29, 1944. The executions were in reprisal for the assassination by Resistance fighters of the Vichy regime’s propaganda chief, Philippe Henriot, after the D-Day landing.
In earlier testimony, Touvier had claimed memory lapses. But Tuesday, he said he wanted to give a full account of the events leading up to the executions.
He said he had just returned to Lyons from Vichy on June 28, 1944, when his French superior, Victor de Bourmont, told him of Henriot’s death and of the decision by Lyons Gestapo chief Werner Knab to respond with “a spectacular execution of 100 Jews.”
“De Bourmont was panic-stricken, and I was panic-stricken too,” Touvier testified, noting that an agreement then was struck, cutting the number of Jews to be executed.
“We tried to reduce the number of victims from 30,” he said. “I said we would do seven at a time.”
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Touvier said Knab became preoccupied with other matters and didn’t notice the change in number. Touvier’s aide, Albert Reynaud, chose the seven prisoners, he testified.
“We could not avoid the catastrophe,” Touvier had testified earlier. “But I did, even so, save 23 human lives.” That is the crux of Touvier’s defense: that he was following German orders and that, by his actions, some lives were saved.
The seven refugees, ages 23 to 64, were lined up against the wall of a cemetery in Rillieux and shot one by one, first in the back, then in the head. “It had been decided. It had been done,” Touvier said.
After the executions, “I spent a very bad night,” he testified. And the next day, he said, he saw a Jesuit priest and confessed. “I never forgot this tragedy,” he testified. “I said Mass. Mass for Jews is valid.”
Touvier’s fate rests in large part on whether the jury decides that the executions fall under the legal definition of a crime against humanity, which is a crime willingly carried out as a deliberate policy of genocide. And a key question is whether the Vichy regime had, on its own, a policy of genocide.
Robert Paxton, a historian at Columbia University in New York and author of two acclaimed books on France under the occupation, testified Monday that the Vichy government “adopted a policy of exclusion of the Jews from the economy and culture, for its own reasons and not to please the Germans.”
Paxton argued that in 1942, when the Vichy government turned Jewish refugees in unoccupied zones over to the Germans, “the French services became accomplices in the ‘final solution.’ ”
No member of my natal family loved my daughter and her family because the two families never met. Christine was dead for seven years when Heather came into my life. Her family did not love any member of my family. Because of the legal battle my niece Shannon was having over the creative legacy she inherited, I asked my daughter not to have anything to do with my family until things were resolved. There was no good reason for my daughter and her mother to try and get in the rival bio.
My daughter and her family knew Bill Cornwall and his father wanted me out of the picture, and wanted my grandson all to themselves – because Bill could not conceive a child. Either could Randall Delpiano whose name is on Heather’s birth certificate. Randy died childless. I told Patrice I wanted to have Delpiano removed from the name of my minor child who was sixteen when we first met. I did not know I concieved a child – with vivid blue eyes! Randy was a brown-eye Sicilian. I’m sure his mother and sister knew Randy did not sire Heather. That was the problem. His mother thought there was a curse on her son – from the Hanson family. Linda Comstock knew Randy could not sire a child – and thus Heather must be my child. Linda demanded I get a blood test – just incase I deny I sired Heather. Bill Comstock was a big shot attorney. Heather disappeared from my life when she was seventeen. She went and saw Shamus Dundon and his mother, Vicki Presco. Did Stacey Pierrot know this? Thanks to the law firm of Buck&Morris there appeared to be a Big Grab Bag going on, where outsiders held all the Family Power, and, thus could make you rich – somehow!
Bill Cornwall called me and said I was about to lose my daugher and six year old grandson. He called me a “parasite” a title members of the Tea Party love to use to divide our nation. Bill’s father was a higher up in the Tea Party – in Texas! I am positive the Cornwall family believes the Democrats stole the election and cheated their beloved Trump-David King our of his birthright. Let me say..
HA!HA!HA! Screw you Bill, you drunken lying dog parasite – LOSER! You and your father – LOST! You are friggen – BIG LOSERS! You two – LOST YOUR MIND!
Heather ceremoniously took my new grandchild from me, and made plans to have us never meet. Heather signed a legal document to be my Trustee when I got moneys from the Trust of my uncle, Vincent Rice. She refused to serve, and made outrageous conditions, being I sign a document saying I will not write about her and her family. In the history of literature, one would be hard pressed to find a more diabolical and uncaring attempt to get in the biography of a famous person as conducted by Heather and her family. Adults encourage a minor to betray her father and ignore the lies of strangers. Donald Trump had a T.V. show where he gave people a chance to be a Big Success. He fired – losers! American Voters – fired Trump! I dismissed Heather Delpiano as my Trustee.
There is no greater usurpation in literature conducted by a Minor Child, who was following the directions of devious adults who told my child it is just fine to hurt and destroy me – because I am mentally ill. So was my famous sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, who was seeing as many as three therapists.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Conservative attorney John Eastman said that the strategy outlined in a now-infamous memo about how to overturn President Joe Biden‘s Electoral College victory on January 6 was “crazy,” suggesting it was not a “viable” option.
On October 1, 2013 on the day the Government of the United States ceased to exist due to the successful take-over of our Democracy by the Tea Party secessionists, I, John Presco, proposed to, Virginia Hambley de Bourmont, and she accepted.
With this proposal, I presented to my fiancé the Louisianans Territory as held by her illustrious French Ancestors.
Let it be known, that on this day, October 2, 2013, that I John Gregory Presco lay claim to the California and the Oregon Territory as it was known to my illustrious ancestors the Benton and Fremont family, who egregiously ignored the Constitution and the Economic Idealogy of Jeane-Baptise Say, who married into the de Bourmont Anjou family, who are this very day trying to restore the Monarchy of France. Good luck!
I believe the only chance the Orlean de Anjou claimants have, is to back the New Found Kingdoms in America that take in most of the land west of the Missouri River – that was illegally taken by the ideology of ‘Manifest Destiny’ as promoted by my kindred, Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Now that this democracy ceases to exist, I hereby make null and void the purchase of the Oregon Territory from Britain.
Let it be known, that I, the rightful King of California and Oregon, will return California to Mexico and the Mexican People, if they back my claim, and make my bride-to-be and her beloved kindred – the Titular and Dynastic Rulers of the New Kingdom of California-Mexico!
It is my desire to see my kindred merrily taking part in all festivities these great people are known for, with pomp, and royal flare that will be paid for by the Mexican people via a Royal Tax. This is a small price to pay for solving half of the immigration problem.
Sincerely
John Presco
Titular King of Oregon and California
P.S. also let it be known I am the Rightful Leader of the Republican Party – in exile!
I awoke from my Old Man Nap, and understood God wanted me to found Seven Kingdoms within the border of the United States. I considered naming the former Lousiana Territory, Virginia, then, I went looking for the source of this name. I was blown away!
The Kingdom of Virginia will include, Oregon, and Washington as depicted on the map above. It is God’s Will that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex rule this new kingdom, for it is ordained.
I am a Nazarite after John the Baptist and Samuel ‘The King Maker’.
“The state of Virginia was named after England’s Queen Elizabeth I. In the early 1600’s, all of North America that was not Spanish or French was then called “Virginia” in honor of “The Virgin Queen,” and the earliest English colonial expeditions were sent by the Virginia Company of London. Virginia became the 10th…
Pierre de Bourmont was a parachutist for the Free French. He is in the photos above, I believe he is on the left in the photo of three. Pierre has short legs like Virginia Hambley and her mother, Elizabeth. Was Pierre kin to Victor de Bourmont, and if so, is this a tale of divided loyalties? That is Pierre on the top row-right in the group of five.
Here is the caption for the large group:
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The Golden book Picture 1 CIA Barnes July 1941
Here is the caption of the photo:
July 1941 at the Barnes camp. From left to right: Standing: Was Coutentin – Karam – Goff – Audibert – Gaultier – Lim – Royer g. – Roy – Ducourneau – Bergé – staying – fate – Geiger – white – Martin r. – George – Samar – Clement – Bouard In the Middle: Le Gall – lol – Mouhot – Tourneret – Bourmont – Belle – the Ghaus – ja – Marie-Victor – Linale – Provost – Bothorel – Klinkemaille – Guichaoua – Hays – James Seated: Boutinot (hidden) – Vidal – Jarvis – Guetry – Blignières – marriage – Nawal – Carion – Patenaude – Le Meur – Lambert – Rodier – Prados – Balere – Royer j. – Dejean – Iturria
Members of the Vichy did fight for the Allies after France was liberated. The Free French adopted the Cross of Lorraine after Joan of Arc. Why did the U.S. Government recognize the Vichy? We are beyond Pan’s Labyrinth and at the rebirth of Joan of Arc who gave birth to the formost legend of France.
Today, Briggette Bardot is considering renouncing her French citizenship.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
On the eve of the French Revolution, Bourmont entered the Gardes Françaises of the French royal army but he emigrated in 1789. Bourmont served in Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé royalist army in the campaigns of 1792 and 1793.
The United States granted Vichy full diplomatic recognition, sending Admiral William D. Leahy to France as American ambassador. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull hoped to use American influence to encourage those elements in the Vichy government opposed to military collaboration with Germany. The Americans also hoped to encourage Vichy to resist German war demands, such as for air bases in French-mandated Syria or to move war supplies through French territories in North Africa. The essential American position was that France should take no action not explicitly required by the armistice terms that could adversely affect Allied efforts in the war.
Within Vichy France, there was a low-intensity civil war between the French Resistance—drawn from the Communist and Republican elements of society—against the reactionary elements who desired a fascist or similar regime as in Francisco Franco’s Spain. This civil war can be seen as the continuation of a division existing within French society since the 1789 French Revolution, illustrated by events such as the Bourbon Restoration and the White Terror enforced by the Chambre introuvable; the 1825 vote of the Anti-Sacrilege Act by the ultra-royalist comte de Villèle; the 1871 Paris Commune and the violent repression which followed, including the creation of the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur in expiation of the “Commune’s sins”; the May 16, 1877 crisis; the Dreyfus Affair; the conflict during the application of the 1905 law on the separation of the Church and the State; the 6 February 1934 riots, etc. A part of French society had never accepted the Republican regime issuing from the Revolution, and wished to reestablish the Ancien Régime. This was made apparent by the leader of the monarchist Action française, Charles Maurras’ glee, who qualified the suppression of the French Republic as a “divine surprise”. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/VichyRegime.html
On 3 October 1940, the Vichy government voluntarily promulgated the first Statute on Jews, which created a special, under-class of French Jewish citizens, and enforced, for the first time ever in France, racial segregation. The Statute first made mandatory the yellow badges, a reminiscence of old Christian anti-semitism. Police inspector André Tulard participated to the logistics concerning the attribution of these badges. The October 1940 Statute also excluded Jews from the administration, the armed forces, entertainment, arts, media, and certain professional roles (teachers, lawyers, doctors of medicine, etc.). A Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs (CGQJ, Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives), was created on March 29, 1941. It was first directed by Xavier Vallat, until May 1942, and then by Darquier de Pellepoix until February 1944. Mirroring the Reich Association of Jews, the Union Générale des Israélites de France was founded. The police also oversaw the confiscation of telephones and TSF (télégraphie sans fil) radios from Jewish homes and enforced a curfew on Jews starting from February 1942. It attentively monitored the Jews who did not respect the prohibition according to which they were not supposed to appear in public places and had to travel in the last car of the Parisian metro. Along with many French police officers, André Tulard was present on the day of the inauguration of Drancy internment camp in 1941, which was used as the central transit camp for detainees captured in France, in the huge majority by the French police itself. All Jews and others “undesirables” passed through Drancy before heading to Auschwitz and other camps.
De Bourmont, Touvier said, ‘was very upset’ and Werner Knab, the Nazi secret police chief in Lyons, had ‘decided a spectacular execution of 100 Jews had to be carried out’ in reprisal for Henriot’s death. Touvier said de Bourmont persuaded the Germans that the affair was purely French and cut the number to 30. De Bourmont was ‘panic-stricken, and I was panic- stricken too’. Touvier added: ‘We tried to reduce the number . . . I said we would do seven at a time.’
Victor de Bourmont is a member of one of the largest Angevin aristocratic families. He was born 1907 in Pontivy and died in March 1945 in Pomerania near Kolberg (Korlin). It comes down to many aristocratic families the region and Brittany, including de Cossé-Brissac, and Rohan. Many of his ancestors were under the former Regime, presidents or advisors of the Chamber of Auditors from Brittany and Normandy. Married in 1938, he left behind him, to his death four young children. Biography[Edit] Son of army, his father was captain at the beginning of the war of 14-18 to the 160e regiment of infantry, and then in 1917, squadron leader. The same year, uncle Victor died in Verdun in the ravine of the fountains. After the war, in 1920, Victor learned to know Germany, when his father was assigned to the army of occupation of the Rhine. He lived in Landau (1921), and in Recklinghausen (1924). The family remained ten years in Germany, and returned in Brittany as in 1930. He was the eldest of nine siblings. Army, Victor de Bourmont was lieutenant in the 1930s in the Sharpshooters, in Tunisia. During the second world war, he joined the militia , which he was the Chief in Lyon (with Touvier under his command), and then the SS Charlemagne Division in 1944. He was promoted to Hauptsturmführer and commanded as the 57e infantry regiment of the division which opposed theRed Armyon the eastern front. He had under his command, among others, Henri Fenet. 57E Régiment was incorporated into the 32e German infantry division. The latter was commander in 1944-1945, lieutenant-general Hans Boeckh-Behrens
Dieudonné de GHAISNE de BOURMONT INDIVIDUAL ARCHIVE FAMILY LINK INDIVIDUAL MATCHES
Parents Louis de GHAISNE de BOURMONT Marie Anne de CRESPAT Spouses and children Married to Baptistine SAY with Anne Marie de GHAISNE de BOURMONT Louis de GHAISNE de BOURMONT Bertrand de GHAISNE de BOURMONT Victor de GHAISNE de BOURMONT Sophie de GHAISNE de BOURMONT
N ° 45 elite troops The “French Squadron” of the SAS:
“Its objective is Berka III, one of the aerodromes of Benghazi, 1,500 miles to the Northwest. His men, Sergeant Bouard, master corporals fate and Iturria, corporal Le Gall and himself will have to work by a detachment of the LRDG. On June 11, “the desert rats” abandon 40 km from Benghazi, in the bled. -Go to June 18, good hunting, good luck! They walk the night, is camouflage agenda. In the middle of the second night of the June 12-13, they reached near the airfield for the RAF attacked. The alert facilitates them the trespass into the enemy device. Without a shot being fired, fate trap three aircraft; the fourth watchers react and it hurt slightly. These are Italians, they remain cautious. Bobos continues sabotage on two other aircraft while others maintain the opponent remotely; Iturria, with the help of grenades; the aspirant and the Gall, with their PM. Defenders renforcent and their aggression forced the paratroopers to the full. Bobos is injured, but they managed to disparaître in the night. On the day, they are collected by nomads who care for the wounded, hiding them and put them in contact with the British captain Mayne, who returns him also operating. At the dawn of the fourth day, they reached whole the meeting point with the LRDG, which brings back them to Siwa where Lieutenant Jacquier, another team leader, them has already preceded. With three men, Martin, Lambert and Boutinot, it could reach related to Barcelona. They just blow up the bombs filing, which the explosion destroyed the airfield buildings, bouleversé the track and damaged several devices. Thus, twenty enemy aircraft have been put out of use, no friendly losses. It is unfortunately not the case for actions against Derna. Only lieutenant Jordan returned. Fourteen men are missing. From Siwa, the three groups of five parachutistes are transported to Derna by three German trucks recovered, led by anti-German Germans recruited by the GIS. Everything goes well until the entrance in the town. They mingle without difficulte with the convoys of the axis forces moved the 8th Army, which retired. One of the vehicles goes down. Jordan decides to abandon one of the three objectives. Betrays one of the drivers. The Jordan team and that of corporal Bourmont are intercepted in their truck before you have made. In the confusion, the Hunter Guichaoua throws a grenade and escapes as well as the lieutenant. Others are quickly neutralized. It is team of cpl. Tourneret who should deal with the second objective: Martcuba II. Guichaoua places his last grenade into a device that flames. He was wounded in the head, but escapes to the Northwest. On 17, he comes across an Italian bivouac; It is again injured his hand, but fled again. Lost in the desert, he was taken prisoner on June 19 by an Italian patrol. JORDan only joined the meeting point. Guichaoua died of disease in Italy in August 1942; of Bourmont, Widal, Prados, Geiger escaped to Italy in September 1943 (Geiger took over); Gillet, Saaaf, Tourneret, Royer, j., Royer, g., was staying, James died in the torpillage of the vessel that was taking in Italy; Drezer lost a leg; Lingala, escaped, will continue the campaign. ”
Date of birth: 20 May 1920 – Warsaw 49
Social origin: student / school
Point of departure to France Libre: metropolis
Commitment in the free France: London in July 1940
Assignment: FAFL / paratrooper
Grade achieved during the war: Lieutenant
House of Cossé-Brissac
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Coat of arms of the family: de Cossé-Brissac Blazon Sable three gold fasces, serrated bottom Period XVe -century XXIe century Country or province of origin Maine and Anjou Allegiance Kingdom of France Homes Château de Brissac Loads Governor Great Pablo France Grand Falconer of France Function (s) member (s) Marshal of France Grand Master of the artillery General change Of Cossé-Brissac (home of Chris with the title of Duke of Brissac) is a residual family of French nobility. There are four marshals of France, generals, peer of France, six Knights of the Holy Spirit, two Governors of Paris, with large bodyguard of France, of great Falconer of France, three bishops, as well as a politician in the French Fifth Republic .
Yolande LEVESQUE, née le 13 mai 1913, à Nantes (44), décédée le 28 octobre 1935, à Mont-de-Marsan (40), et Louis de BOURMONT, né le 11 septembre 1905, à Marigné-Peuton (53), décédé le 5 novembre 1991, à Hossegor (40),
From Siwa, the three groups of five parachutistes are transported to Derna by three German trucks recovered, led by anti-German Germans recruited by the GIS. Everything goes well until the entrance in the town. They mingle without difficulte with the convoys of the axis forces moved the 8th Army, which retired. One of the vehicles goes down. Jordan decides to abandon one of the three objectives. Betrays one of the drivers. The Jordan team and that of corporal Bourmont are intercepted in their truck before you have made. In the confusion, the Hunter Guichaoua throws a grenade and escapes as well as the lieutenant. Others are quickly neutralized. It is team of cpl. Tourneret who should deal with the second objective: Martcuba II. Guichaoua places his last grenade into a device that flames. He was wounded in the head, but escapes to the Northwest. On 17, he comes across an Italian bivouac; It is again injured his hand, but fled again. Lost in the desert, he was taken prisoner.
another statement of Bourmont
– (…) To you, inhabitants of Africa, hold for certain that I just point make you war. Your duty is to stay quiet… I certify that there is no one among us who wants to do you no harm or disturb you in possession of your property… You enjoy as you do today… Your mosques, large and small, will continue to be frequented and devoted as they are to your worship… Our single goal is to attack the Pasha… It is clear and demonstrated to you that he was only working to ruin and the misfortune of your country, and it plays your fortunes and your lives… (…) cited (undated) by Gustave Gautherot in the conquest of Algiers, 1830, Payot, 1929, p. 170.
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont (2 September 1773 – 27 October 1846) emigrated from France soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution. A lifelong royalist, he fought with the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé for two years, then joined the insurrection in France from three more years before going into exile.
Bourbon RestorationAfter the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon’s fall, Bourmont gave evidence that led to Ney’s execution. After the Second Restoration, he was given command of the 16th infantry division in Besançon and took part in the Spanish campaign of 1823. King Charles X of France made him minister of war in 1829 and Marshal of France in 1830. He was commanding the Invasion of Algiers in 1830 when the July Revolution broke out in 1830. Bourmont refused give his allegiance to the new King Louis Philippe and was dismissed from service. In 1832 Marshal Bourmont took part in the rising of Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de Berry and on its failure fled to Portugal. He commanded the army of the absolutist monarch King Miguel during the Liberal Wars and after the victory of the constitutional party he retired to Rome.
According to historian David Hamilton-Williams, the Comte d’Artois asked Bourmont to remain a royalist agent, so he requested to continue in command.
He served in Italy and on the staff of the Eugène de Beauharnais during the Russian campaign of 1812.
“The Captain” is commanding an outpost responsible for squashing the few remaining Anarchist rebels living in the mountains who are under the impression that the Spanish Civil War is still being fought. As far as lost causes go, few were as lost as the Anarchist cause during the Spanish Civil War: the war was largely over by 1939 and Franco would rule over a Fascist Spain until his death in 1975, upon which the Bourbon monarchy was restored.
In one scene between mother and daughter, at Carmen’s request, Ofelia tells her brother-to-be a fairy tale – setting out for him the new ideal of Spain. The brother is the coming Monarchy of Juan Carlos, made by Franco with the agreement of the Church. In her story, Ofelia tells her brother to enter the world of occult and look for a mysterious rose at the top of a dark mountain covered with thorns.
Ofelia must bring him the newborn Monarchy to be sacrificed on the altar of the occult so that Spain can fully return to Paganism and the kingdom of darkness. But Spain protects her half-brother, the new regime, and is forced to return the infant to the hands of a wounded and drugged Francoism, who has pursued Ofelia into the labyrinth.
I learned yesterday that Joaquin Miller proposed to Pre-Raphaelite Muse, Emma Hill, who became the wife of Ford Maddox Brown. Joaquin spent some time in Maddox’s famous home at 37 Fitzroy Street that is regrettably owned by Scientology. Some of the greatest artists, poets, and writers of Britain met here, especially the Pre-Raphaelites, of which I declared I was one in 1969. I shared these artists with my late sister, the world famous artist known as ‘Rosamond’ who took up art in 1972. I have posthumously titled Christine a Pre-Raphaelite Artist. One of the artists that spent time at William Morris whom had a great influence on J.L. Tolkien. The painting Brown rendered are moviesque. I will try to get the director of my movie ‘Hromund’ to use the work of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Joaquin Miller was friends with William Michael Rossetti, and his brother, Gabriele. William married Lucy Maddox Brown. If Joaquin had married Emma, then he would be kin to the most literary and creative people in the West. For years I have been trying to get City Manager, Neil Laudati, interested in making Springfield Oregon, the Home of the Pre-Raphaelites, because the Miller family lived down the road apiece, and were Oregon Pioneers. My family knows nothing about this history. Since Christine’s death, Drew Benton, Shannon Rosamond, and Shamus Dundon have not written and published ONE WORD about the Artists and Writers in their family, yet, they claim so much! This is an astounding Creative Legacy that will be recognized by Great Britain, once they are made aware of it.
I modeled Royal Rosamond Press after The Germ. I elevated the famous commercial success of Drew and Shannon’s mother, and I have never been thanked. Christine said she owed her success to me, her teacher. The proof of this is evident.
Yoni Noguchi was at the Fitzroy House and lived with Miller in the Oakland Hills. My family knew Miller who may have modeled his Bohemian enclave after the Pre-Raphaelites and the creative souls who knew the Brown family. Yoni appears to have been a Japanese Spy sent by the Emperor to learn Western Culture through poetry. This is so Tolkienish! Here is the Japanese Bilbo who travels to a strange land and bonds with Gandalf. Joaquin write about their small statue. More of his “brown” people came to the Hights.
So soon after I gave my family a flash of bright light, there are dark problems about why I was not told Vicki died ten days ago. It has been suggested I was both the mother and father to my parents, and my siblings. I have been avoiding the possibility I am……..The Family Giver…………and I have been severely ripped off? Or is it a case of the naughty stupid children hiding everything from their brilliant parent who may be their superior, and a genius. No one but me took the time to learn anything about art, and, literature!
Joaquin Miller was the editor of Eugene’s first newspaper – before there was a Springfield. His brother George married a Cogswell who are the founders of the Eugene Register Guard. There’s newspaper men surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Sisterhood. George could have been the brother-in-law of Emma Hill.
Joaquin put the make on English Women dressed as a cowboy, or, Californian Hippie. He came to conquer – with poetry! I would like to employ Miller’s poetry in my book and movie the same way Tolkien did with the poetry of William Morris. Joaquin did his best to wed English Literature to the Wild West. Joaquin’s influence on the culture of Japan needs a collegiate study. The Invasion of Pearl Harbor may have contained Miller’s poetry.
“The Californians like to laze about all day reading poetry to one another, and painting pretty picture. Then, when the mood strikes them, they roll over on one another and fornicate like beasts. Our Imperial Marines will make quick work of them. Bonsai!”
The Beauty that Joaquin really wanted to roll over one, was Mathilde Blind. But, he met his Waterloo! Alas I think I have found the Teutonic Woman that broke Miller’s heart. Did he propose to Emma after Blind body-slammed his cowboy ass in the Bohemian Cage of Pathos, Life, and Death? Our Orgonian was out of his league. There is no Pathos, here, here! Lucy Maddox Brown did a portrait of Blind.
With the passing of my sister my thoughts went to the loneliness of Rena Victoria Easton, my Waterloo. It is this connectivity that motivates and moves these Bohemians across a flowery dance floor seeking first the attention of their Sisters and Brothers. Here are the original Hobbits and Hippies, the timeless root of the New Cooperation.
The other day, when my beloved sister came to me while I took my old man nap, she thanked me! From heaven she could behold the Big Picture now that her artistic siblings allowed her to be a part of. She was – wowed! She could not believe her good fortune, and the great choice she made, to be born from the same Rosy womb!
Are those California poppies? Did Joaquin bring a pot of them, over there, on a ship?
I just got off the phone with Virginia Hambley. I suggested we go see a Rabbi and conduct a ceremony of atonement for her mother’s kindred’s involvement in the Vichy government. She questioned me about this doing any good, after all, she has nothing to feel guilty about. I told her there is the question of the sins of the father being passed down to the son. I told her her father had told me the de Bourmont’s were leaders of the Vichy government. France itself has not made an official apology to the Jews.
This whole idea came about after reading about the movie ‘Casablanca’. Lisa Lund, and Victor Lazio are members of the Czech Resistance. In 1939, the Nazis arrested 1,200 Bohemian College Students and sent them to death camps where they died alongside Jews and Gypsies. My father Victor Presco descends from a immigrant from Bohemia. Virginia’s great grandfather is Victor de Bourmont who stands accused of sending seven Jews to their death. Here are three Victors.
After reading about Casablanca, I took a nap and had a dream. I was praying alone in a room, when the door opened and a hand entered the threshold holding a vine growing in a pot. In minutes I called Virginia, and we had a good talk. I went to bed having a conversation about what I would say to a Rabbi. When I awoke and rehearsed our conversation.
When I got on my computer I read it was the anniversary of Auschwitz. I called Virginia who suffers from severe memory loss after getting into a terrible accident with fellow college students. I have long wondered if this memory loss represents the co0llective guilt of the de Bourmont family who rather then atone, rely on the remedy that our memories grow short. I told Virginia about the students and the oppression of free thinking.
The motto concerning Auschwitz is “Never Forget”.
Jon the Nazarite
Victor de Bourmont is a member of one of the great Angevin aristocratic families. He was born 1907 in Pontivy and died in March 1945 in Pomerania near Kolberg (Korlin). It descends many aristocratic families of the region and of Brittany, including the Cossé-Brissac, and Rohan. Many of her forebears were under the old Regime, presidents or advisors of the Chamber of accounts of Brittany and Normandy.
Married in 1938, he left behind, his death four children in infants. Son of Sain, his father was captain at the beginning of the war of 14-18 to the 160e regiment of infantry, then in 1917, squadron leader. The same year, the uncle of Victor died at Verdun in the ravine of the fountains. After the war, in 1920, Victor learned to know Germany, when his father was assigned to the occupation of the Rhine army. He lived in Landau (1921), and Recklinghausen (1924). The family stayed ten years in Germany, and returned in Brittany as in 1930.
He was the eldest of nine siblings.
Sain, Victor de Bourmont in the 1930s was lieutenant in the Sharpshooters, in Tunisia. During the second world war, he joined the militia , which he was the Chief in Lyon (with Touvier under his command), and then the SS Charlemagne Division in 1944. He was promoted to Hauptsturmführer and commanded this title the 57e infantry regiment of the division which opposed theRed Armyon the eastern front. He had under his command, among others, Henri Fenet. The 57e Régiment was incorporated into the 32e German infantry division. The latter was commander in 1944-1945, lieutenant general Hans Boeckh-Behrens.
On January 27, 2015, the world will commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. On the Shabbat immediately preceding (January 24), in Synagogues across the world, Jews will read Parshat Bo. This year in particular, Parshat Bo’s lessons have deeper meaning and relevance.
Parshat Bo begins with the Egyptians suffering through the last three of the ten plagues; אַרְבֶּה – Locusts are destroying plants and food supply;
חושך – the country is engulfed in an extraordinary unrelenting darkness;
מכת בכורות -the death of each first born Egyptian male.
Once the final plague is rained down on the Egyptians, Pharaoh forces Bnai Yisrael out of Egypt immediately; without anytime to pack or even for their dough to rise and therefore the only rations they have with them are unleavened bread. From Parshat Bo comes the mandate to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt; Bnai Yisrael must observe the anniversary of the Exodus each year by leading a Seder, removing all chametz from their possession for seven days, eat only matzah, telling the story of the redemption to their children, and all of the other symbolism associated with the Yitziat Mitzrayim. Bnai Yisrael are also given the commandment to wear tefillin on the arm and head as a reminder of the Exodus and their commitment to Hashem.
PARIS — Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier, his voice barely a whisper at times, testified in his defense Tuesday, giving a detailed account of the decision to execute seven Jews during World War II and portraying himself as a troubled functionary acting only under German orders.
“Right to the end, I tried to find another solution,” said Touvier, 78, the first Frenchman ever brought to trial on charges of crimes against humanity. Shown photographs of the slain Jews, mouths and eyes wide open in death, Touvier sputtered, “These photos . . . it’s horrible.”
Touvier, the former intelligence chief of the pro-Nazi French militia, has been on trial for 10 days in a court in Versailles, where a jury of nine is deciding his fate. The maximum penalty under French law is life in prison.
The trial, and the legal battle waged to bring Touvier to court after his arrest in 1989, has renewed a painful, 50-year-old debate in France over the Vichy government’s collaboration with the German occupation during World War II.
Touvier, who was hidden for 45 years by right-wing Catholic priests and monks, has admitted that he handpicked the men who executed the seven Jews in Rillieux-la-Pape, near Lyons, on June 29, 1944. The executions were in reprisal for the assassination by Resistance fighters of the Vichy regime’s propaganda chief, Philippe Henriot, after the D-Day landing.
In earlier testimony, Touvier had claimed memory lapses. But Tuesday, he said he wanted to give a full account of the events leading up to the executions.
He said he had just returned to Lyons from Vichy on June 28, 1944, when his French superior, Victor de Bourmont, told him of Henriot’s death and of the decision by Lyons Gestapo chief Werner Knab to respond with “a spectacular execution of 100 Jews.”
“De Bourmont was panic-stricken, and I was panic-stricken too,” Touvier testified, noting that an agreement then was struck, cutting the number of Jews to be executed.
“We tried to reduce the number of victims from 30,” he said. “I said we would do seven at a time.”
Touvier said Knab became preoccupied with other matters and didn’t notice the change in number. Touvier’s aide, Albert Reynaud, chose the seven prisoners, he testified.
“We could not avoid the catastrophe,” Touvier had testified earlier. “But I did, even so, save 23 human lives.” That is the crux of Touvier’s defense: that he was following German orders and that, by his actions, some lives were saved.
The seven refugees, ages 23 to 64, were lined up against the wall of a cemetery in Rillieux and shot one by one, first in the back, then in the head. “It had been decided. It had been done,” Touvier said.
After the executions, “I spent a very bad night,” he testified. And the next day, he said, he saw a Jesuit priest and confessed. “I never forgot this tragedy,” he testified. “I said Mass. Mass for Jews is valid.”
Touvier’s fate rests in large part on whether the jury decides that the executions fall under the legal definition of a crime against humanity, which is a crime willingly carried out as a deliberate policy of genocide. And a key question is whether the Vichy regime had, on its own, a policy of genocide.
Vichy France, officially the French State (État français), was the government of Marshal Philippe Pétain‘s regime 1940–44, during World War II. From 1940 to 1942, while nominally the government of France as a whole, Vichy only fully controlled the unoccupied zone in southern France, while Germany occupied northern France. Following the Allied landings in French North Africa on 8 November 1942, southern France was also occupied by the Axis on 11 November 1942 through the enactment of Case Anton. The Vichy regime remained in existence, but was reduced to a puppet government.
Vichy sought an anti-modern counter-revolution. The Right in France, with strength in the aristocracy and among Catholics, had never accepted the republican traditions of the French Revolution. It demanded a return to traditional lines of culture and religion and embraced authoritarianism while dismissing democracy.[4] The Communist element, strongest in labour unions, turned against the regime in June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Vichy was intensely anti-Communist and generally pro-Nazi; Payne finds that it, “was distinctly rightist and authoritarian but never fascist.”[5] Paxton analyzes the entire range of Vichy supporters, from reactionaries to moderate liberal modernizers, and concludes that genuine fascist elements had but minor roles in most sectors.[6]
The regime tried to assert its legitimacy by symbolically connecting itself to the Gallo-Roman period of France’s history, and celebrated the Gaul chieftain Vercingetorix as the “founder” of the nation.[7] It was maintained that as the defeat of the Gauls in the Battle of Alesia had been the moment in French history when a sense of common nationhood was born, the defeat of 1940 would again unify the nation.[7] The regime’s “Francisque” insignia featured two symbols from the Gallic period: the baton and the double-headed hatchet (labrys) arranged so as to resemble the fasces, symbol of the Italian Fascists.[7]
Vercingetorix came to power in 52 BC: he raised an army and was proclaimed king at Gergovia. He immediately established an alliance with other Gallic tribes, took command and combined all forces, and led them in Gaul’s most significant revolt against Roman power. He won the Battle of Gergovia, in which 46 centurions and 700 legionaries died and more than 6,000 people were injured, whereupon Caesar’s Roman legions withdrew.
However, a few months later, in the Battle of Alesia, the Romans besieged and defeated his forces and captured him. He was held prisoner for five years. In 46 BC, as part of Caesar’s triumph, Vercingetorix was paraded through the streets of Rome and then executed by strangulation on Caesar’s orders. Vercingetorix is primarily known through Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War.
The United States granted Vichy full diplomatic recognition, sending Admiral William D. Leahy to France as American ambassador. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull hoped to use American influence to encourage those elements in the Vichy government opposed to military collaboration with Germany. The Americans also hoped to encourage Vichy to resist German war demands, such as for air bases in French-mandated Syria or to move war supplies through French territories in North Africa. The essential American position was that France should take no action not explicitly required by the armistice terms that could adversely affect Allied efforts in the war.
Germany interfered little in internal French affairs for the first two years after the armistice, as long as public order was maintained.[9]:139 As soon as it was established, Pétain’s government voluntarily took measures against the undesirables: Jews, métèques (immigrants from Mediterranean countries), Freemasons, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals,[citation needed] and left-wing activists. Inspired by Charles Maurras‘ conception of the “Anti-France” (which he defined as the “four confederate states of Protestants, Jews, Freemasons and foreigners”), Vichy persecuted these supposed enemies.
In July 1940, Vichy set up a special Commission charged with reviewing naturalizations granted since the 1927 reform of the nationality law. Between June 1940 and August 1944, 15,000 persons, mostly Jews, were denaturalized.[43] This bureaucratic decision was instrumental in their subsequent internment.
The internment camps already opened by the Third Republic were immediately put to new use, ultimately becoming transit camps for the implementation of the Holocaust and the extermination of all “undesirables”, including the Romani people (who refer to the extermination of Gypsies as Porrajmos). A law of 4 October 1940 authorized internments of foreign Jews on the sole basis of a prefectoral order,[44] and the first raids took place in May 1941. Vichy imposed no restrictions on black people in the Unoccupied Zone; the regime even had a mulatto cabinet minister, the Martinique-born lawyer Henry Lemery.[45]
When Laszlo makes inquiries, Ferrari, a major underworld figure and Rick’s friendly business rival, divulges his suspicion that Rick has the letters. In private, Rick refuses to sell at any price, telling Laszlo to ask his wife the reason. They are interrupted when Strasser leads a group of officers in singing “Die Wacht am Rhein“. Laszlo orders the house band to defiantly play “La Marseillaise“. When the band looks to Rick, he nods his head. Laszlo starts singing, alone at first, then patriotic fervor grips the crowd and everyone joins in, drowning out the Germans. In retaliation, Strasser has Renault close the club.
Bogart and Bergman
That night, Ilsa confronts Rick in the deserted café. When he refuses to give her the letters, she threatens him with a gun, but then confesses that she still loves him. She explains that when they first met and fell in love in Paris in 1940, she believed that her husband had been killed attempting to escape from a concentration camp. Later, while preparing to flee with Rick from the imminent fall of the city to the German army, she learned that Laszlo was alive and in hiding. She left Rick without explanation to tend her ill husband.
“Defeated on the battlefield, conservatives sought the aid of France to effect regime change and establish a monarchy in Mexico, a plan that meshed with Napoleon III’s plans to re-establish the presence of the French Empire in the Americas.“
For your entertainment enjoyment, I supply my readers of Royal Rosamond Press with an exhilarating soundtrack to go with my continuance of the movie ‘Napoleon. Feel free to adjust the sound level.
The Bonaparte Family in America
I watched the movie ‘Napoleon last night and was impressed with the brief shots of the Prussian Army. I suspect the director did not want to spend too much time on them, lest he be accused of being pro-German, or, being anti-Semitic, which is huge right now in the Propaganda War Israel, and aspects of the American media, are conducting. Anti-Semitism – is real! Israel had negotiated with Hamas in the past, and thus titling them “terrorists” does not work. Civilized Nations don’t negotiate with terrorists. Netanyahu made sure President Biden was signing off on the exchange of hostages. Consider the Barbary Coast Pirates who took many infidels hostage – and made them their slaves!
While I watched the Battle of Waterloo, I considered the role that Louis Auguste Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont played in defeating Napoleon at Waterloo. Apparently de Bourmont was a turncoat – and traitor? This idea is deliberately blurred, because de Bourmont was a avid Royalists, with family ties to the Great Conde. This Royalist knew Napoleon was not royalty, and was in the way to the return of the True Monarchy, who manipulated Napoléon to their own ends. He could muster the troops – and was victorious! This is the theme of this movie.
As I watched I realized I am one of the few people – in the world – who knows what is really going on. When I saw the scenes of Napoleon in Egypt, I was reminded of DeBourmont’s invasion of Algiers that was conducted to destroy the Barbary Pirates – and cement the formation of the New Monarch with the French People. De Bourmont was mimicking Napoleon! He is also preparing the way for my great grandfather, Sir Isaac Hull who captained the U.S.S, Constitution who made was against the Caliph and freed hostages!
After the movie, I realized Napoleon was not just entertainment for me – and Virginia! I realized My Plot to gift my fiancé with the Lousiana Territory – WAS REAL – because the French – ARE PLOTTERS! It’s what they do! There us much evidence Napoleon 111 wanted to invade America, and depending on who won the Civil War – CONQUER AMERICA! This is – what the French – did! Did the Confederacy make a secret agreement to give France everything west of the Missippippi – if they invaded California – and destroyed John Fremont Western Army?
On Monday night, the Speaker of the House met with the Insurrectionist, Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago. It is rumored Mike Johnson is a Christian Nationalist who wants to install King Jesus in his American Kingdom. How about – Emperor Jesus – who declares…
“I found King David’s crown – in the gutter!”
The Red States – seceded from the Union. If the Confederates had won, would there be a De Bourmont winery in California – with castle?
Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson met with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday night, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The meeting, which took place at a fundraiser for Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., marked the first time the two have met in-person since Johnson was elected on Oct. 25.
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence).[1] A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal is the creation of a new state or entity independent of the group or territory from which it seceded.[2] Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals.[3]
Notable examples of secession, and secession attempts, include:
“With Napoleon’s orders in their hands, the Prussians were able to take the appropriate countermeasures to gather their army. Bourmont’s defection enraged the French rank and file. Though their loyalty to Napoleon was absolute, they began to suspect treachery in their generals. Étienne Hulot, who became the acting division commander, was compelled to give a speech that pledged loyalty to Napoleon and the tricolor.[3]“
When Virginia Hambley de Bourmont got down on her wounded knee, took my hand, and proposed to me, was my long search for the Grail, at an end. Virginia descends from Geoffrey IV de la Tour Landry who compiled Livre pour l’enseignement de ses filles for the instruction of his daughters. This book is also titled ‘The Book of the Knight of the Tower’. Geoffrey may have authored Pontus and Sidonia a medieval prose roman that was put to song, thus, here is alas The Phantom of this Opera!
Geoffroy de la Tour-Landry married Jeanne Le Rouge.
“Richard Eldridge, owner and winemaker, stumbled into wine through marriage to the late Valerie de Bourmont who introduced him to wine. In a sense, the rest is history.”
I met Virginia Hambley in 1998, and wanted children with her. When I learned she could not have children, and when my sixteen year old daughter appear in my life, I told Virginia I would share Heather with her. The same went for grandson, Tyler Hunt, when he was born. Virgnia was not born when her two older sisters attended the wedding of their cousin in New York where she was born. Clark Hambley was an artist and worked at a prestigious advertising agency.
Like her sister before her, after graduating from High School, Virginia was invited to stay with her Bourmont kindred in France. She told me they had a winery. When I showed her a photo of Breze Chateau, and asked her if this is where she stayed for nearly month, she said this was the place of the family winery.
“You didn’t tell me it was a castle!”
Jon Presco
Château de Brézé is a small, dry-moated castle located in Brézé, near Saumur in the Loire Valley, France. The château was transformed during the 16th and the 19th centuries. The current structure is Renaissance in style yet retains medieval elements including a drawbridge and a 12th-century trogloditic basement. Today, it is the residence of descendants of the ancient lords. The château is a listed ancient monument originally dating from 1060.[1] A range of wines are produced at the château which has 30 hectares of vineyards.[2]
On the morning of 15 June, as the French Army of the North advanced into Belgium, the 14th Division led the IV Corps column of march. Near Florennes, Bourmont halted his division. On the pretence of scouting ahead, he and his staff, rode ahead with a squadron of lancers. After gaining a suitable distance from French lines, he sent the lancers back with a letter for Gérard. In the missive, he explained that he was deserting but promised, “They will not get any information from me which will injure the French army, composed of men I love.” He and his staff put the white Bourbon cockade on their hats and galloped for the nearest Prussian position. He immediately handed over Napoleon’s operational plans to the Prussians. Gebhard von Blucher‘s chief of staff August von Gneisenau was pleased to receive this windfall. However, Blucher had no use for turncoats and called Bourmont a traitor to his face. When Gneisenau noted that Bourmont was wearing the white cockade, making them allies, Blucher screamed, “Cockade be damned! A dirty dog is always a dirty dog!”[2]
With Napoleon’s orders in their hands, the Prussians were able to take the appropriate countermeasures to gather their army. Bourmont’s defection enraged the French rank and file. Though their loyalty to Napoleon was absolute, they began to suspect treachery in their generals. Étienne Hulot, who became the acting division commander, was compelled to give a speech that pledged loyalty to Napoleon and the tricolor.[3]
At about 13:15, Napoleon saw the first columns of Prussians around the village of Lasne-Chapelle-Saint-Lambert, 4 to 5 miles (6.4 to 8.0 km) away from his right flank—about three hours march for an army.[89] Napoleon’s reaction was to have Marshal Soult send a message to Grouchy telling him to come towards the battlefield and attack the arriving Prussians.[90] Grouchy, however, had been executing Napoleon’s previous orders to follow the Prussians “with your sword against his back” towards Wavre, and was by then too far away to reach Waterloo.[91]
Grouchy was advised by his subordinate, Gérard, to “march to the sound of the guns”, but stuck to his orders and engaged the Prussian III Corps rear guard under the command of Lieutenant-General Baron von Thielmann at the Battle of Wavre. Moreover, Soult’s letter ordering Grouchy to move quickly to join Napoleon and attack Bülow would not actually reach Grouchy until after 20:00.[91]
“Returning to Paris in October, 1855, he was warmly received by his friend Prince Napoleon who overwhelmed him with questions about his travels in America. “I answered them the best I could.” Cipriani wrote, “But , it is a veritable deluge….We keep talking about my journeys, of the Sanora, of conquering it.” Perhaps he thought of seizing it for France and hoped the prince might persuade his cousin the Emperor to finance the undertaking. “It is an idea in the air,” he added, “that I would willingly undertake, if necessary capital and men were available.”
Napoleon with his nieces and nephews on the terrace at Saint-Cloud, by Louis Ducis, 1810. Napoleon and four of his siblings have living descendants.
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It appears that Cipriani was successful in uniting the House of Savoy with the Bonapartes, and thus the House of Stuart. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul of France, Pr Napoléon, married in Turin in 1859, Princess Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emanuel. From this union would come other Bonapartes with the name Victor. Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric, Prince LOUIS Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie, and, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Was the Jacobite ‘Order of the White Rose’ somewhat successful in their plan to put the Stuarts on a throne and rule the world? There appears to contention with the Prussians who can claim the same ancestry through the Winter Queen of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James, and thus the Hanovers who are in all regards, the Windsors.
French expeditionary force, 31 December 1862[edit]
Campaign uniform of a French Foreign legionary during the Mexican campaign
At its peak in 1863, the French expeditionary force counted 38,493 men[4]: 740 (which represented 16.25% of the French army).[121] 6,654[7]: 231 French died, including 4,830 from disease.[7]: 231 Among these losses, 1,918 of the deaths were from the regiment of the French Foreign Legion.[122]: 267
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont (2 September 1773 – 27 October 1846) was a French general, diplomat and statesman who was named Marshal of France in 1830. A lifelong royalist, he emigrated from France soon after the outbreak of the French Revolution and fought with the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé for two years, then joined the insurrection in France for three more years before going into exile. He was arrested after assisting the Georges Cadoudal conspiracy, but escaped to Portugal.
In 1807 he took advantage of an amnesty to rejoin the French army and served in several campaigns until 1814. He rose in rank to become a general of division. During this period, he was suspected of being an agent of the Comte d’Artois and passing information to France’s enemies. Though he was notoriously anti-Napoleon and many officers did not trust him, he was employed again during the Hundred Days. Immediately after the campaign began, he deserted to the Prussian army with Napoleon’s plans. King Louis XVIII of France gave him a command in the Spanish expedition of 1823.
Promoted to Marshal of France, he was put in command of the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. However, after the July Revolution, he refused to recognize King Louis-Philippe of France and was sacked. After being involved in a plot against the new government, he fled to Portugal in 1832. He led the army of Dom Miguel in the Liberal Wars, and when the liberals won, he fled to Rome. He accepted another amnesty, this time in 1840, and died in France six years later.
The second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867),[13] was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain. Mexican conservatives supported the invasion, since they had been defeated by the liberal government of Benito Juárez in a three-year civil war. Defeated on the battlefield, conservatives sought the aid of France to effect regime change and establish a monarchy in Mexico, a plan that meshed with Napoleon III’s plans to re-establish the presence of the French Empire in the Americas. Although the French invasion displaced Juárez’s Republican government from the Mexican capital and the monarchy of Archduke Maximilian was established, the Second Mexican Empire collapsed within a few years. Material aid from the United States, whose four-year civil war ended in 1865, invigorated the Republican fight against the regime of Maximilian, and the 1866 decision of Napoleon III to withdraw military support for Maximilian’s regime accelerated the monarchy’s collapse. Maximilian and two Mexican generals were executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867, ending this period of Mexican history.
The intervention came as a civil war, the Reform War, had just concluded, and the intervention allowed the Conservative opposition against the liberal social and economic reforms of President Juárez to take up their cause once again. The Mexican Catholic Church, Mexican conservatives, much of the upper-class and Mexican nobility, and some Native Mexican communities invited, welcomed and collaborated with the French empire’s help to install Maximilian of Habsburg as Emperor of Mexico.[14] The emperor himself, however proved to be of liberal inclination and continued some of the Juárez government’s most notable liberal measures. Some liberal generals defected to the Empire, including the powerful, northern governor Santiago Vidaurri, who had fought on the side of Juárez during the Reform War.
1. My great, great, great grandfather, Captain Isaac Hull directed, and engaged the enemy in America’s first War Against Islamic Terrorists.
2. Virginia Hambley’s great great, great grandfather, Louis de Bourmont, brought French legitimists before King Miguel, and recognized him a heir to the throne of France. Miquel is the grandfather of Empress Zita who fled to America when Hitler put a price on her head. Zita’s son was Otto Von Habsburg. Bourmont was in many respects similar to Jean of Arc, minus the religious visions. He was very keen on following a bloodline.
“Miguel was assisted by the French General Bourmont, who, after the fall of Charles X of France came with many of his legitimist officers to the aid of the king of Portugal (that is, Miguel).”
Louis de Bourmont backed Henry Count of Chambord as the rightful heir to the thrown of France. Louis commanded the land forces that took major cities in Algiers. When de Bourmont refused to recognize to support the “Citizen King” Louis-Philippe, he was relieved of his command. Who knows how much territory de Bourmont would have taken in the second War against Muslim Terrorist. Louis must have studied the success of Hull and William Eaton that ended with the Treaty of Tripoli that produced Article X1.
It is my intention to compose a letter the President of the United States and the U.S. Senate making them aware of Hull and Bourmont who served Nation and King, and not God/Jesus. I am seeking a attorney to help me bring a lawsuit against Tom Cotton, and the Senators who signed his letter. There is powerful evidence these men were motivated by their religious ambitions they shared with Benjamin Netanyahu. Together these men grievously interfered with the negotiations with Iran who militias have handed ISIS defeats in Iraq. Many Republicans are altering true American history in order that it be subserviant to their faux religious history. Boehner’s attorney has quit the lawsuit against President Obama who has ordered our Air Force to bomb ISIS.
Here is a letter from my kindred the Department of the Navy. He lists three Marines who shed their blood in Tunisia where there was a attack on the museum that was home to the Bey Captain Isaac Hull did battle with.
My bond with Virginia will last a lifetime. Her mother looks very much like Louis de Bourmont.
SIR, I have the honor to inform you, that at 9 O.Clock in the morning of the 27th being about 10 Miles to the Eastward of the Town of Derne, with the Hornet in Company, we discovered the Nautilus at Anchor very close to the shore, which led us to suppose that Capt. Dent had fallen in with Mr. Eatons Army, as he had been sent in shore for that purpose the day before. — We made all sail for the Nautilus, and at 1/2 past 10 spoke her, and was informed by Capt. Dent that he had, had communication with Mr. Eaton the night before, and that he wished to have the field Pieces landed as soon as possible, and that Mr. Eaton intended to make an attack upon Derne as soon as he could get possession of them, being then about two and a half miles from the Town, and the Enemy having sent him a chalenge, hoisted out our Boat to send the field Pieces on shore with such supplies as Mr. Eaton was in want of, but on approaching the shore we found that it was impossible to land the Guns without hauling them up an almost perpendicular rock Twenty feet above the Boat. But with the perseverence of the Officer and men sent on this service, they effected the landing one of them, by hauling them u the steep Rock. Mr. Eaton finding that we should loose time in landing the other, sent it off again informing me that he should march for the Town as soon as he could possibly mount the field Piece that he had on shore, gave Lieutenant Evans Orders to stand close in shore, and cover the Army while they were preparing to march, in case the Enemy should come out against them, as they had already made their appearance in large numbers outside of the Town, gave Orders for the necessary preparations to be made for the attack by Sea upon the Town and Batteries, and stood down very close to the Town. — At 2 P.M. Mr. Eaton began the attack by Land, at same time the Hornet Lieut. Evans Anchored with Springs on his Cables, within One hundred Yards of the Battery of eight Guns, and commenced a heavy fire upon it.
I am done with this frog pond, these mean little town blues for homeless loons that has no room for real ideas, especially, BIG IDEAS! There will be no Godzilla Festival competing with the Eugene Celebration that has been presented by the kindred of Ken Kesey. I am moving Ken back to the Bay Area where he lived for awhile so that he may be part of the Raising of Atlantis and the presenting of the Atlantean Grail to the world. For this move I bring out my BIG GUN, my kindred Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, who was the Muse for Hollywood Royalty that the Christian-right, and Osama Bin Laden, declared cultural warfare on.
Watch this video. Isn’t it clear the Republican-Church wants our nation to fail, wants to see our great cities to go down for the sake of country bumpkins who are bored out of their wits? What is this loon talking about? Who is her audience?
Since 911, American has buried it head in the sand. We are not the America we used to be. Millions are considering casting votes for Sarah Palin again so they can be entertained while they clutch their guns and their Bible down in their End Time bunkers. Pat Robertson suggests his fearful senior followers take out a second mortgage in order to pay off their afterlife debt instead of putting their grandchildren thru college.
The photograph of Bogart’s boat, is the most beautiful photograph I have ever seen. My father’s High School chums sat atop the TransAmerican Title pyramid. They asked Victor to come on board, but, he wanted to sail the bay alone.
After the Oakland Hills Fire, my friend Michael took me up to Taurus street and showed me the ruins of Peter Stackpole’s home wherein valuable works of art and photography was destroyed. This was a monumental loss to the art world, and to the creative culture that made the Bay Area a Mecca to Bohemian Souls from all over the world.
Ralph Stackpole was a friend of George Sterling and stayed with him and the artists and poets that gathered at Lake Temescal in Oakland. Ralph befriended Diego and Freda Rivera the famous muralist and artist. Ralph helped design the Paramount theatre and a giant statue for Golden Gate Exposition, a goddess named Pacifica.
Peter Stackpole was a staff photographer for LIFE magazine and spent much time in Hollywood shooting the stars, among them, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. Peter stayed on Errol Flynn’s boat and was privy to his exploits. My grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, chased Errol from her home at dawn when he and a friend came serenading.
Michael was a good friend of Jim Morrison and the poet, Michael McClure. He and his wife helped me investigate Christine Rosamond’s drowning, and helped with my father’s Trust. I was good friend with Michael’s mother and his two brothers since 1965.
Jon Presco
Ralph Ward Stackpole (May 1, 1885 – December 13, 1973) was an American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator, San Francisco’s leading artist during the 1920s and 1930s. Stackpole was involved in the art and causes of social realism, especially during the Great Depression, when he was part of the Federal Art Project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Stackpole was responsible for recommending that architect Timothy L. Pflueger bring Mexican muralist Diego Rivera to San Francisco to work on the San Francisco Stock Exchange and its attached office tower in 1930–31.[2] His son Peter Stackpole became a well-known photojournalist.
Throughout the 1930s, Stackpole worked frequently with architect Timothy Pflueger on various commissions. Beginning in 1929 when the two men first met, Stackpole was given responsibility for selecting the artists who worked to execute and augment Pflueger’s basic design scheme for the San Francisco Stock Exchange and its associated Tower, especially the Luncheon Club occupying the top floors of the Tower.[17] Stackpole said later of the experience, “the artists were in from the first. They were called in conference and assumed responsibility and personal pride in the building.”[18] At the Sansome Street tower entrance, Stackpole worked on a scaffolding with a crew of assistants to direct carve heroic figures in stone.[19] After the building was completed, Stackpole was finally successful in winning a commission for Rivera; Pflueger became convinced that Rivera would be the perfect muralist for decorating the staircase wall and ceiling of the Stock Exchange Club. This was a controversial selection considering Rivera’s leftist political beliefs in contradiction to the Stock Exchange’s capitalist foundation.[20] Into the mural, Rivera painted a figure of Stackpole’s son Peter holding a model airplane.
During his stay, Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo lived and worked at the studio, becoming in the process lifelong friends with Stackpole and Ginette. They met tennis champion Helen Wills Moody, an avid painter-hobbyist, who soon agreed to model for Rivera at the studio.[21] Neighbor Dixon saw the attention, and the American money being given to Rivera, and with etcher Frank Van Sloun organized a short-lived protest against the Communist artist. However, both Dixon and Van Sloun quickly realized that the San Francisco art world “oligarchy” who were obviously smitten with Rivera, including Stackpole’s well-connected patrons, were the same group that they themselves would need to support their own art aspirations.[10]
For much of 1931, Stackpole partnered with other artists to decorate Pflueger’s Paramount Theatre in Oakland; an Art Deco masterpiece. A bas-relief scene of horses, waves and a central winged figure was emplaced over the stage’s proscenium arch, finished in gold-toned metal leaf—the work jointly designed by Stackpole and Robert Boardman Howard.[22] The design worked into Pflueger’s metal grille ceiling grid likely came unattributed from Stackpole’s sketches. Pflueger was an able project leader; Stackpole later described his involvement: “He was the boss alright, as an architect should be … He would call the plays just as a symphony conductor does … There wasn’t a lock, molding, or window that he did not inspect in the drawings and in the actual building with the utmost thoroughness and care.”[23]
Stackpole worked through ten months of 1932 on a monumental pair of sculptures flanking the grand entrance of the Stock Exchange: a male and a female grouping showing the polarity of agriculture and industry, showing in their rounded human shapes the influence of Rivera. Chiseling into 15 short tons (14 t) of Yosemite granite, he wore goggles and a mask. The unveiling ceremony took place in the cold of New Year’s Eve, with Mayor Angelo Rossi joining Stackpole, Pflueger and artisans in smocks.[24]
Stackpole took his son Peter to visit their photographer friend Edward Weston in Carmel in the early 1930s, and the two older men spent the day discussing photography, “the difference between making and taking a photograph, between the intended and the random”.[7] This conversation, and the 1932 exhibit by Group f/64, a collection of innovative photographers such as Weston and Ansel Adams, was later seen as foundational to Peter Stackpole’s conception of photography.[7]
In July 1933, Stackpole completed a model of a design to be incorporated into the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge’s central anchorage on the western side. The anchorage, to be constructed of concrete rising 197 feet (60 m) above the water, was to display over much of its height a bare-chested male figure standing solidly between the two suspension spans. However, Arthur Brown, Jr., Pflueger’s colleague on the Bay Bridge project, did not like the scale of the figure, which belittled the bridge. Engineer Ralph Modjeski agreed, writing “The gigantic figure which is proposed for the centre anchorage is out of place for a structure of this kind and would not harmonize with the end anchorage.”[25] Stackpole’s design was abandoned in favor of a largely flat expanse of poured concrete. In 1933 and 1934, Stackpole took part in the Public Works of Art Project assignment to paint murals for Coit Tower.[26] Many of the murals were executed in styles reminiscent of Rivera, and Stackpole himself was portrayed in five of them;[27] in one he is shown reading a newspaper announcing the destruction of a Rivera mural in New York.
In 1937, Stackpole received a commission to sculpt his interpretation of Colorado River explorer John Wesley Powell, for display in the Main Interior Building of the U.S. Department of Interior. It was to be a companion piece to Heinz Warneke’s portrayal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Warneke learned that Stackpole intended a water scene, so he changed his portrayal of Lewis and Clark to be one of them on land. Stackpole and Warneke delivered their stone reliefs in 1940, and the two panels were mounted on either side of the stage of the building’s auditorium.[28]
Noted photographer Peter Stackpole, famous for his photographs of the building of the Bay Bridge in the 1930s and one of the original four staff photographers for Life magazine, has died. He was 83. Mr. Stackpole died Sunday at Novato Community Hospital of congestive heart failure, his son, Tim Stackpole, said Monday. Born in San Francisco on June 15, 1913, the son of artists, Mr. Stackpole grew up in Oakland and took up photography in high school when he traded his model airplanes for a friend’s photography equipment. His father, Ralph Stackpole, sculpted the pylons adorning the front of the Pacific Stock Exchange and “Pacifica,” the 80-foot statue for the 1939 World’s Fair on Treasure Island.
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After building a darkroom in his mother’s home, Peter Stackpole parlayed his hobby into work for local newspapers. He is best known to Bay Area residents for his powerful images of the construction of the Bay Bridge. On a ferry ride to visit his father’s studio, he got an inspiration from seeing the bridge towers being built, rising out of the water like majestic monoliths. His big break came in 1934, when Time magazine paid him $100 for his shot of then-President Herbert Hoover snoozing at a commencement ceremony at UC-Berkeley’s Greek Theatre – a photograph killed by Oakland Tribune publisher William Knowland. In 1936, Life magazine hired Mr. Stackpole as one of its four original photographers. He worked alongside legendary photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White and Thomas McAvoy, launching an illustrious career with Life that lasted 25 years. His work graced 26 covers. He was the last surviving member of that first Life photo staff. In 1991, Mr. Stackpole, who had carefully saved negatives from his assignments covering everything from war to Hollywood, lost all but a handful of his work in the Oakland hills fire that consumed his home. He bundled up 50 wartime images and escaped with them. Mr. Stackpole and his wife, Hebe, lost their Montclair hillside home and everything in it, including a professional darkroom, four enlargers, a dozen cameras, expensive accessories, and negatives and prints from a thousand assignments. A year after the fire, the photographer said the loss gave him perspective and a fresh outlook. “If I had five more minutes and more light to see where the stuff was, I might have saved some of my best work,” he said. “But what’s gone is gone and there ain’t a damned thing anyone can do about it.” Tim Stackpole remembered his father’s creative craftsmanship in building waterproof camera housings in the family basement. “Media was like putty in his hands,” Tim Stackpole said. The elder Stackpole taught his son how to use lathes to shape Plexiglass. “I came away with the feeling that I could make anything.” “He was a wonderful person. A wonderful friend,” said Mr. Stackpole’s nephew Tobias van Rossum Daum, who recalled that his uncle was recently busy in his darkroom reprinting crisp images of Errol Flynn from original 60-year-old negatives. Besides Flynn, Mr. Stackpole photographed Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor. He became a fixture at Hollywood parties and developed friendships with many film industry luminaries. His photographs showing the celebrities having fun and relaxing at home with their families were among the first to break from the glamorous Hollywood portraits familiar to fans. Mr. Stackpole also taught photography at the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco in the 1960s. He also was something of a celebrity at local photo equipment swap meets. “He’ll be missed in those circles,” van Rossum Daum said. Mr. Stackpole is survived by his son, Tim, and two daughters
The coffins of Mélinée and Missak Manouchian, surrounded by installations representing their FTP-MOI Resistance comrades, during the ceremony to admit the couple to the Panthéon, Paris, February 21, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
Touvier, who was hidden for 45 years by right-wing Catholic priests and monks, has admitted that he handpicked the men who executed the seven Jews in Rillieux-la-Pape, near Lyons, on June 29, 1944. The executions were in reprisal for the assassination by Resistance fighters of the Vichy regime’s propaganda chief, Philippe Henriot, after the D-Day landing.
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