Two works by Poe decoded. Announcement!!

[yanni]

Part II
Listed below are ALL family members condemned to die by the guillotin during the "terreur" in France.

Excluding the last, they are all residing in the greater Eure-Loire area (where Bignon-Mirabeau is located) and, facing execution, they all insist very "nationalisticaly", on using different spelling versions of their sirname although closely related, brothers and cousins, and sharing the same prison cells.


COCHIN Hugues, domicilié à Chanteloup, département de Mayenne et Loire, condamné à mort comme brigand de la Vendée, le 16 nivôse an 2, par la commission militaire séante à Nantes.

CACHIN Pierre, domicilié à Chanteloup, département de Mayenne et Loire, condamné à mort comme brigand de la Vendée, le 16 nivôse an 2, par la commission militaire séante à Nantes.

CASSIN Jean, domicilié à Mondejean, département de Mayenne et Loire, condamné à mort comme brigand de la Vendée, le 13 nivôse an 2, par la commission militaire séante à Nantes.

CASSIN François, domicilié à Chanteloup, département de Mayenne et Loire, condamné à mort comme brigand de la Vendée, le 16 nivôse an 2, par la commission militaire séante à Nantes.

CASSIN Jean, domicilié à Couron, département de Mayenne et Loire, condamné à mort comme brigand de la Vendée, le 6 nivôse an 2, par la commission militaire séante à Savenay.

CASSIN Marie, de Chanteloup, fusillée le 1er février 1794
Marie Cassin, 44 ans, veuve de Pierre Moreau, née à Chanteloup, y habitait la métairie de Rocheveaud. Arrêtée chez elle, le 15 janvier 1794, elle fut interrogée par le Comité de surveillance de Cholet. Elle reconnaît qu'elle a donné à manger aux soldats qui passaient, sans chercher à savoir s'ils étaient brigands ou non.Quand on lui demande si elle a prié pour le succès des armées rebelles, elle a cette noble réponse : " Je n'ai jamais prié le Bon Dieu que pour la paix et l'union pour tout le monde ". Interrogée à Angers par Vacheron, le 24 janvier 1794, elle est jugée comme préférant les prêtres non sermentés et fanatique. Fusillée le 1er février.

CASSIN Mathurin, domicilié à Latour-Landy, département de Mayenne et Loire, condamné à mort comme brigand de la Vendée, le 17 frimaire an 2, par la commission militaire séante à Doué.

CAUSSIGNY Joseph Louis, (dit Valbelle), ex noble, domicilié à Aix, département des Bouches du Rhône, condamné à mort comme contre-révolutionnaire, le 21 germinal an 2, par le tribunal criminel dudit département.

No other Cochins or even De Langes, Savalettes, Magnanvilles etc were found in the relevant "guillotin" site.

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[yanni]

Part III

At http://perso.orange.fr/claude.jondeau/ix43n2.html#O, some 60 plus Cochins are on record (1700-1850) in Eure et Loire (result of "Cochin+Bignon+Mirabeau" web search)

"Cachin+Bignon +Mirabeau" produces just two Cachins, long dead by 1794,
at http://www.gatinaisgeneal.org/roberte/ix43n0.htm

and just one Cassin (Louis (334-2) Naissance : 1747. (not among the executed)
http://www.gatinaisgeneal.org/roberte/pag66.htm#12

In other words:

The name change before the guillotin was compulsory!

...and rather definining for the attitude of the survivors, if any.

The next question is how did the Paris lot escape the guillotin?

Gioachino/Saint Germain/Augustin Henry Cochin, first and foremost as well as the "mercer dynasty" of monsieur Winnie Lawrence, where did they all go leaving their poorer relatives to pay the heavy penalty?

Maybe the last in the list....

CAUSSIGNY Joseph Louis, (dit Valbelle), ex noble, domicilié à Aix, département des Bouches du Rhône, condamné à mort comme contre-révolutionnaire, le 21 germinal an 2, par le tribunal criminel dudit département.

..has something to say on the subject!

Next: The sea view.

[yanni]

The sea view!

Part I

Reaching 1794, La Provence and the Med, we discover that "Caussigny Joseph Luis (dit Valbelle)" has dropped his G on the way transforming himself into

....Joseph Louis de Caussini (bâtard du marquis Omer de Valbelle) meurt sur l'échafaud à Marseille en 1794 pour avoir prêté main-forte à la contre-révolution.....

Belle Marseille, France's main port for sailing to the Levant, suitable for bringing in heavy cargo, such as classical greek and egyptian antiques for instance, hence the Musee Calvet housing today France's first ever "egyptian collection" as well as some classical greek items, the rest, in great demand pre 1800's, having being long transported to Paris.

Actually it's not the first time we visit the Calvet: It was sometime in July, 2005 that we first contacted them inquiring about the eventual link between their egyptian antiques and an "Anastasy Cocchini" father of the famous "armenian" papyri-and heavier items- collector and the latter's eventual relation to Monsieur Sallier, mayor of Aix around 1804-1807, early owner of some of the "d'Anastasy" papyri.

"No, no", the kind curator replied (in step with the rest of "them") she knew nothing on the subject whatsoever! (Best regards dear Madame O!)

Apart from a faint web reference for a family of consuls in Marseille by the name of Cassin or Cazin nothing else is online linking the Cochins to the Med except the above bâtard, a promising prospect, as we'll soon see.

The other link is not on the Med:.

Belleville sur Mer, found in a set of drawings for a "Salle de Billiards" for a "M.Cochin,inspecteur général des ports de mer" is north of Rouen and opposite Portsmouth (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi...41740&isize=M), totaly unsuitable for antique collectors but the perfect place to find Gioachino/Saint Germain around 1761-65.
No sirname or date is given by the good site however but neveryoumind, dear "scholars"!

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[yanni]

Part II.

To come back to the "batard Caussini dit de Valbelle",

Le site officiel de la Mairie de Venelles informs us today that Venelle's territory in La Provence, (reaching the sea front, with Entremont at its center, some 3 km from Aix) belonged from 1753 up to the revolution to the Caussini family, last of which the "batard":.

- 1753 Famille de Caussini
*Joseph Louis de Caussini (bâtard du marquis Omer de Valbelle) meurt sur l'échafaud à Marseille en 1794 pour avoir prêté main-forte à la contre-révolution
*les terres du condamné Caussini sont divisées en 20 lots et vendues à des agriculteurs du terroir (Chieusse, Bajolle, Chabaud, Magnan, Laurin, Coste, Reynier, etc.)

Le batard also inherited the territories of - art loving antique collector- comte Joseph-Alphonse-Omer de Valbelle, marquis de Tourves (1729-1778), including his chateau http://www.documentation-provence.org/orgs/127.htm see also chateau Valbelles and link with Diderot etc at http://www.merveilles-du-var.net/mer...r_valbelle.htm

..as well as Aix centre itself:

Joseph-Louis de Caussini, baron de Valbelle, que la providence semblait avoir destiné à perpétuer ce beau nom par le don que le comte de Valbelle et la mère de celui-ci qui lui avait survécu, avaient fait audit M. de Caussini de la terre de Valbelle, auprès de Sisteron, de la baronnie de Meyrargues et de l'hôtel à Aix dont nous parlons, ne jouit que peu d'années de ces libéralités, ayant été mis à mort à Marseille pendant la révolution, en 1794, comme nous le dirons ailleurs, et ne laissant qu'une fille mariée à Aix, en 1812, dans la
maison d'Albertas.

Following his death in 1794 a part of his agricultural land. was confiscated and sold to local families...

*les terres du condamné Caussini sont divisées en 20 lots et vendues à des agriculteurs du terroir (Chieusse, Bajolle, Chabaud, Magnan, Laurin, Coste, Reynier, etc.)

...whereas some of his houses in downtown Aix became the property of mayor Sallier, the "Anastasy papyri" owner!!!!!

La première, celle qui fait le coin de la rue de Suffren, à l'opposite du couvent dont nous venons de parler, fut acquise en 1810, par M. François Sallier, qui avait été maire d'Aix pendant quatre ans, et à qui la ville est redevable de plusieurs établissements importants, notamment de celui de l'école de dessin, fondée, il est vrai, en 1770, par le duc de Villars,

We found all our answers but lost our orientation once again:

Didn't Honoré Armand, duc de Villars, prince de Martigues (1702-1770) die in 1770?. (http://www.antiquesatoz.com/sgfleece/knights4.htm)

Did he "fondee" his "ecole de dessin" from his death bed or did he imagine founding it earlier on in his 1765 will....

.....testament du 27 juin 1765, Honoré Armand, duc de Villars, gouverneur de Provence lègue à la ville d'Aix-en-Provence une somme importante destinée à la création de plusieurs établissements : une bibliothèque publique, un jardin des plantes, un cabinet d'antiquités et de médailles et une écode de dessin.

No, that's not the sea view, it's the same old "vue de mer(de)" again!

[yanni]

You are obviously lost, dear reader, an explanation is required:

When one's "french roots" are examined from the island of Hydra, the sea inbetween, the Med, is essential and, so far in this research, it was absent even if the works, both of Joachino Cocchi as well as of les De Percevals, tasted of it's salt, of Naples, the Levant, Greece, Alexandria, Constantinople etc etc

Marseilles and Provence had been previously searched for Cochins and Cachins but not for Caussins, thus the Aix "Caussini" discovery along with mayor Sallier, of 1803-1806, can be characterised as a major landmark and a success as .....

...ALL "Hydra-Zante-Constantinople" pointers of published heraldic research confirm that the Kokkini of Hydra are the same as the Caussins de Perceval and, as such, also linked to the "sicialian" Gioachino Cocchi/St Germain/ AHC:

Augustin Henry Cochin, seigneur d'Epinay, February 1778, hosts the marriage of Caussin Jaques Nicholas's daughter (sister of the Caussin de Perceval senior), in the presence of the father of the bride as well as grandfather Bejot "professeur du college royal".

Furthermore one of seigneur d'Epinay's daughters, appears(the web) married to a "Viscomte de Belsunce" who demolished La Chevrette in 1786 as per local records, being unable to maintain the chateau.
(Belsunce is located in downtown Marseilles!)

If the Cochins owned "a quarter of the suburbs of Paris" around 1760-65, as stated, and the Caussins, owned half of La Provence (and apparently governed the lot (as from 1778 and until the revolution), then their joint dissappearance around 1785, leaving just the brave "batard" and the Loret lot behind for the guillotin, makes this research more "demanding" and intriquing, at least from a "greek" point of view:

Why did Saint Germain, the most influential family member, stage his 1784 death?

And staging his death, he did:

His Epinay funeral, at 54(!) years of age as recorded, on the 30th of April 1784, ie a two months after his previous "Saint Germain" Eckrenforde death, is much too neat and timely to be believed, much too close to other events taking place at the time such as....for instance(!)

April 1784, with Luis XVI's approval "Figaro's marriage" goes on stage in Paris by M. Beaumarchais- Pierre-Augustin Caron

....etc....

Why did he decide to leave France?

Why did he choose Greece?

How many more Cochins and Caussins "followed the leader" and what became of them next?

Rather important questions to be left in the dark for so long!

Next post propably on April the 2nd next year!

BTW

"Cassini" first become "Caussin", jesuits, with the assistance of Rabelais!
http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Htm..._Rabelais.html

[yanni]

Enough evidence has been produced already to persuade any reader following this subject that "authorities" never really lost track of "Saint Germain" and his "components" in France and the "Levant".

As the core of this, now four centuries old, secret has been revealed and, moreover, as many hints have already been given to enable "insiders" to guess what the future holds, this author can only attribute the resulting silence not just to stupefication but to a scholarly actual "peripheral" ignorance as well!.

The "dynasty's" reluctance to answer "family reunion" calls may have different reasons however!

To be more specific:

Whereas the french family not just survived the "terror" but, after a short absence, reemerged triumphant in "republican monarchy" and "progressive catholic" and even "democratic" France (their path to glory easy to follow today on the web), at the same time their stubborn "old regime" greek counterparts were being monitored (and utilised to exhaustion) by such authorities as Messrs August de Jassaud, "Memoires", 1808/ admiral E.Jurien de la Graviere, (+1892), "La Station du Levant" and Matton.R. "Hydra et la guerre maritime(1821-7)", L'Institute Francais d'Athen, 1953 and others. Said publications, carefully avoiding any specific reference, were naturally accompanied by confidential reports to the French Foreign Ministry!

Furthermore: The archives of the French Ministry of Justice include today(as verified) the "Hilarion Couturier(french consul in Athens) vs Anastasy Cocchini case" (1807-1816), the Louvre archives Champollion's correspondence with Jean d'Anastasy etc etc...

I.E:

Any "professional" historian with access to the above can easily reconstruct their post 1785 history today with the following exception only (hopefully):

The 1835 Zante murder (a family matter and a well kept secret apparently) that will be addressed next on a "working hypothesis" basis so that the "accused" enjoy benefit of doubt!

Whereas "saints" should normally exclude " philanthropic Simon Templars", real family stories turned legends don't always end in tears!

[yanni]

The following extracts maybe of further interest to "history revamping" scholars

Gibbon's Journey from Geneva to Rome. His Journal from 20 April to 2 October 1764,

Avrà tuttavia occasione di avvicinare due personaggi in vista di quel mondo: il vecchio Lami e Raimondo Cocchi. Fu il Lami stesso che, prevenuto dal Bartoli, venne a cercarlo. La sua apparizione, la mattina del 27 giugno, lasciò i due amici esterrefatti: non potevano immaginarsi figura più sordida, più ripugnante (pp. 122, 254). Lo rivedrà una sola volta, allorché andrà a visitare la Riccardiana (p. 154). Vide, invece, più volte il Cocchi. Lo conobbe, sembra, in una compagnia d'inglesi, il 28 luglio; ma gli fece così fiacca impressione da neppur nominarlo (p. 187 n. 2). Lo rivide necessariamente quando volle visitare il gabinetto delle medaglie: il Cocchi era "antiquario nella R. Galleria". Ma non amava le medaglie, anzi le disprezzava: amava assai più la professione di medico. La sua indifferenza e addirittura estraneità al museo che era affidato alle sue cure, le negligenze, i modi svagati irritarono fortemente il Gibbon (pp. 193, 194, 204). Anche l' "esprit" che tutti gli riconoscevano era di un genere che non gli piaceva: "Au reste l'air gredin, les manieres presque extravagantes et les propos singuliers annoncent un philosophe, si l'on veut distinguer un philosophe d'un homme raisonnable" (p. 193). Si trattava, anche ai suoi occhi, di una incompatibilità istintiva, di un'avversione irreducibile: "je ne lui trouve point le genie qu'on lui attribue; c'est peut-etre parce que les notres ne sont pas analogues" (p. 197). Osservandolo meglio, vale a dire con più malignità, finì per rinvenire in lui addirittura sentimenti bassi e mancanza di dignità: "J'entrevois de l'extravagance dans ses idées, de l'affectation dans ses manieres et de la bassesse dans ses sentimens. Il se plaint à tout moment de sa pauvretè. Il connoit peu la veritable dignitè de l'homme de lettres" (p. 204). Non gli sembrava di averne già detto male abbastanza. Peccato che il G. si tenga così nel vago a proposito delle "stravaganti" idee del suo interlocutore: tanto più che l'ultima conversazione, da quanto ne lascia intravedere, aveva contenuto politico, toccava anzi aspetti della vita politica inglese. Si sa che il Cocchi era ancor più anglofilo di suo padre; ed è ben nota la sua amicizia per Paoli e il suo attivo aiuto alla causa còrsa[22].


(22)...R. Cocchi e le sue "Lettere italiane sopra la Corsica, in: ASC, XVIII, 1942, 241-256. L'attribuzione delle Lettere al Cocchi è però errata: le Lettere italiane sono di Luca Magnanima (cfr. "Novelle Letterarie", Firenze 1775, col. 503). Il Paoli nella lettera al Cocchi da Londra del 13 settembre 1770 ("Oh qual piacere avrei di abbracciarla! per dimandarle ragione a cazzotti di non avermi mandato il libro che ha dato fuori sull'infelice mio paese") alludeva con molta probabilità alle Osservazioni di un viaggiatore inglese sopra l'Isola di Corsica scritte in Inglese sul luogo nel 1767 ed ora tradotte in Italiano (Londra 1769), che sono certamente opera del Cocchi (G. Livi, Lettere inedite di P. Paoli, in: "Arch. Stor. Italiano", 175, 1890, 268; G. Lessi, Elogio di R. Cocchi, in: "Atti dell'Imp. e Reale Acc. d. Crusca", I, 1819, 80). Composto in occasione di una "commissione politica" che il Cocchi svolse in Corsica per conto del governo inglese, questo interessante opuscolo è in gran parte una descrizione delle strutture politiche della Corsica di Pasquale Paoli, il governo "forse il più libero, dopo il nostro [chi parla è, si ricordi, un 'viaggiatore inglese'] che sia nel Mondo [...] " (Osservazioni, 10, Livi, 71-76). Poiché tutti i còrsi avevano preso parte alla lotta di liberazione, il Paoli era stato "in obbligo di dare a ciascun uomo il suo destino d'esser membro dello Stato", di creare cioè un governo popolare (Osserv., 15). Il fondamento della democrazia còrsa era la piccola proprietà agricola: "Vi ha una divisione agraria de' Territorj, non istabilita per legge, ma così di fatto sussistente. Vivono come se fossero in comune [...] " (Ibid., 36). Era proprio questa "idea di proprietà", oltre all'odio implacabile dei genovesi, che animava i còrsi e li faceva "disperati" nella lotta. Lo scopo pratico che il Cocchi perseguiva è rivelato senza ambagi alla fine dell'opuscolo: rimuovere l'editto, emanato dal governo inglese nel 1764, che proibiva a qualunque suddito inglese di commerciare con i còrsi. Tal divieto era incompatibile per i "principj di libertà". Il Cocchi riprendeva ancòra una volta il paragone con l'Inghilterra: "I Còrsi rappresentano oggidì la parte gloriosa, che noi rappresentammo al tempo della nostra rivoluzione. Sono essi infiammati dai medesimi giusti motivi, ed animati dal medesimo spirito di libertà [...] " (lbid., 39). Anglofilo dunque fino ad accettare delicati incarichi politici dal governo inglese, il Cocchi aveva composto per Horace Mann, "suo amicissimo", una Relazione della costituzione fisica, civile, ed economica della Toscana granducale che rimase inedita (Lessi, 80). Non mancano tra i suoi progetti intellettuali le stranezze: penso a quel suo tentativo, che risale forse al 1764, di epica popolare e cantabile che è il poema di Luni, presentato compiacentemente dal suo eulogista come una prova dell' "interesse ch'ei [Cocchi] prendeva a migliorare per ogni modo la sorte degli uomini" (Lessi, 76, 79).

Also of interest Gibbon's friendship with John Baker Holroyd, 1st Lord Sheffield as well as 2nd Lord Sheffield's part in transporting Michael Petrou Kokkini to Missolonghi early 1823 (greek records) confirmed by:

Lord Sheffield is arrived from Brundissium <sic> whe<re><9> he was obliged to perform Quarantine after having met with all sorts of disasters. We have sent you several papers & brochures & letters that came by the post from all parts
http://www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk/...t=944#cnn01066

[yanni]

To meet our April the 2nd appointment, we better bring a little order in our house:

An important question was raised some posts back, if Saint Germain, staging his AHC death in 1784 and leaving France as he did, was a traitor!

A silly question to raise for a diplomat, it really sounds vulgar when it concerns the chief of the royal secret service, as stated.

So we might as well answer it here and now:

To begin with, anybody familiar with Gibbon's own life choices, cannot but laugh at his attempt to discredit Raimondo Cocchi by referring to his constant pauverty complaints (Il se plaint à tout moment de sa pauvretè) and his lack of philosophical dignity (Il connoit peu la veritable dignitè de l'homme de lettres).

Now let's examine the matter in more detail:

Gibbon, visiting Florence late 1764, writes that Raimondo was in charge of the Uffizi gallery but dr Smollet, visiting Florence February 1765 writes that
Bianchi, [This antiquarian is now imprisoned for Life, for having robbed the Gallery and then set it on fire.] who shows the gallery, thinks the statue represents the augur Attius Navius, who cut a stone with a knife, at the command of Tarquinius Priscus.

The good italian history scholar, who provided for us the text of previous post (his name was lost copypasting, sorry), speaking so oppenly for Raimondo's anglophilia and relating it to Corsica's revolt, is certainly unaware both of Raimondo's brother Gioachino position in France as well as of Corsica's strong greek community (that followed Paoli), he therefore, as a "nationalist", condemns Raimondo for leading Paoli to a revolt that resulted to Genoa, then under french protection anyway, loosing Corsica to France.

Raimondo is obviously following his brother's orders and, as such, he is certainly not betraying France.

Is he perhaps betraying Florence, then under the austrians?

As we said, Bianchi is in charge of the Uffizi Feb 1765, Francis I dies August 18, 1765, Bianchi is imprisoned for looting the gallery and then setting it on fire, end of 1765 the dauphin of Luis XV and Marie Leszczynska also dies, her father Stanislas, King of Poland and duc of Lorraine, too, France annexes Lorraine February 1766, Corsica in 1768 and 1770 Francis I daughter, Marie Antoinette marries future Luis XVI. Following that....

(as per a Florence history site):

1773 Espulsione dei gesuiti, Raimondo Cocchi, figlio di Antonio, è nominato direttore della galleria degli Uffizi.

The next Austrian emperor, therefore, instead of accusing Raimondo for betraying his country or his trust (for removing part of the Uffizi collection) he rewards and reinstates him.

Do we forget perhaps that in 1764 Catherine purchased a major collection of 225 western European paintings, laying the foundation for today's State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia?

No we don't: Art should serve people, not the opposite and, as for Giuseppe Bianchi, we really don't know if he remained imprisoned for life!

Buonjorno (with a smile) bella Italia!

[yanni]

celebrating one year from our web-rebirth, wish all the bee stung sleeping angels following this thread so far, all the best and further sing for you as follows:

Some have left the cool glade, and have slept with the bee-
Arouse them, my maiden, On moorland and lea-
Go! breathe on their slumber, All softly in ear,
Thy musical number They slumbered to hear
For what can awaken An angel so soon,
Whose sleep hath been taken Beneath the cold moon,
As the spell which no slumber Of witchery may test,
The rhythmical number Which lull'd him to rest?"

[yanni]

"Montalembert"!

In previous Al Aaraaf passage, Edgar is simply calling Jean d'Anastasy a "drone" for returning to Alex July 1826 (to become a "chevalier de l'ordre Wasa", consul of Sweden and Norway).
Edgar is thus informing us that untill then (and possibly to shortly before his "Assignation") he has been more in contact with Angelica than his 1823 "d'Athanasy" Gurna host and does not know(or does not want to reveal) his next name and position. In any case his "d'Athanasy" description is of greek fighting for his national cause till then and then, without explanation, changing sides.

Yanni's "betrayal" becomes even more controversial as only few months before, spring, Missolonghi falls to the "egyptians" and Yanni's cousin, the "unknown french" engineer who commemorated Franklin, Byron, Cosziuscko, Montalembert, Ananiah etc, is killed.

This "controversy", quite imposible to interpret from a "greek" point of view", is further confirmed and increased when more members of the family are examined, It has been a major handicap for the underisgned to complete his 1821 Kokkini history research.

Having discovered in France the "center of gravity" of family and interests, we already called them "french", did we not?

As such there is no controversy whatsoever: They all obey the new Bourbon regime's orders. Paris is now "in partnership" with London and, from the Missolonghi, "Montalembert" becomes key for the continuation of our story

Missolonghi's exceptional fortification was designed by Michel Pierre Cochini (as he signed) in accordance with Montalembert's original heptagonal concept. Another Montalembert, son of the former, was France's consul in Sweden in 1826 and instrumental, we assume, to Yanni d'Anastasy's Egypt appointment same year.

But we already had ample evidence (from published research) that "Michel" and "Yanni" were of the same family anyway:

Montalembert also links "greek" Kokkini-Cochini to "french", post 1826, Cochin and the reason this particular passage was chosen is because all the above bring us closer to the solution of our 1835 murder case:

A "Montalembert+Cochin" websearch produces specific members of the "Mercer dynasty", thus, we conclude:

They all were a big, tighlty linked, family until then!

With Lazare Kokkini/ Gioachino Cocchi dying peacefully as Russia's consul, the guns of the hydrian family fleet still blazing, the lawyer-mercers cocooning in Zante for 40 plus years then, old man Anastasy and Lazare Musu, Yanni's family, both in active battle duty, the extensive family archive, including property titles, "secret service, ministerial duty" records etc-let alone papyri-stored in Zante, their "little family secret" long entrusted to their "flexible partners"....

The elements of a drama in the making, nine years to 1835.

[yanni]

with emphasis on their ----- extensive family archive... as well!

Members of the family residing longer in France, ie the parliamentarian descendents of the "confessor" of King Luis XIII-the documents the young dauphin had to sign to be pardoned for his crimes is anybody's guess-obviously had the upper hand in "family affairs" while the "italian" Cocchis, moving to Naples and France after the conquest of Florence by the Austrians, were in a disadvantage.
Thus Gioachino, the fake "Augustine Henry" Cochin and the "frontline" Saint Germain (a "wandering Jew" by title only, "monitored", as previously stated, by the well established in Paris, "Lev" married, "mercers-lawyers" friends of Voltaire)had therefore his very private reasons to state to Marie- Antoinette" his hands "were tied".
The same hierarchy is noticed in the Levant 1760-1826::The Cochinis (Caussinis etc) are positioned to the "front line", the outskirts of the "family empire", Egypt-Asia Minor while the "Cochins" stay in "safe base" Zante, allegedly planning their return to Paris when the time is "ripe" .
The first Cochin Paris reappearance is indeed 1826: They carry their philanthropic "cloak" then, their alleged daggers, true intentions and false identities left behind in Zante.
Yes, 1826 we'll keep us busy a while!

Before we proceed, we define here and now that the term "allegedly" will be ommitted from the remainder of the Announcement in order to prevent repetition, save forum space and author's patience. Aanyone in doubt can apply it reading the text as he pleases however, our heroes are "legendary" anyway, their "secret service" capabilities, indeed worth repeating, also to be avoided from now on.

In other words: As some parts of the story are the product of author's vivid imagination, any reference to real people is definitely, surely and beyond anydoubt whatsoever truly and purely coincidental!

Also: The term "cocooning" previously may read wrong: None of the heroes of this story are "monsters", they all are normal people who, because of conditions beyond their control, behaved as they did or as anybody else would have done in their position. The term was meant as "growing up in a (barely, in comparison to today) safe environment".

[yanni]

Readers are hereby advised that:

-By his letter of December the 12th, 2006 to "concerend authorities" authorship of the present has been established.

-A proforma proposal (a kind of "open letter of intent") for joint publication is presently under consideration referring to the last chapters of the book titled "Purple History". As such, from now on and until this consideration is concluded, posts to follow, if any, will only be referring to pre 1827 events, addressing pending questions and further clarifying certain topics of specific interest.

-Author expresses his thanks to his older readers and his compliments to the, as of late, many newcomers as well. These last are kindly advised to read through the published text carefully to "catch up" if they will, with the story's development hopefully to take place soon herein or perhaps later in real print.

-Author thanks persons of authority and relatives who have communicated with him, by answering his letters or not: In either case they have assisted him for conclusions reached.

Season's Greetings & Happy New Year to all!

[yanni]

dedicated in admiration to french egyptologists (Mme D.V. ("dit" ou pas), and her coleaque Mme C.Z. at L.L) with compliments.

1826:July in Alex the first-ever armenian chevalier de l'ordre Wasa and consul of Sweden. His first "Cataloque General de la Collection" is published by his "serviteur & amis" P.Lavison.


....the egyptian department of the Louvre cr&#233;&#233; le 15 mai 1826 par ordonnance royale de Charles X. Il fit de Jean-Fran&#231;ois Champollion, qui venait d'acqu&#233;rir la collection du consul anglais Salt (4 000 pi&#232;ces), le conservateur de ce qu'on appelait alors le Mus&#233;e &#233;gyptien.


Giovanni d'Anastasi (1780-1860)
Greek diplomat and collector
He was born in Egypt as the son of a Greek merchant who made a fortune as surveyor to Napoleon’s army. As one of Egypt’s leading tradesmen, Anastasi also served as Swedish-Norwegian Consul-General, and like his colleagues he started collecting antiquities. His first collection was acquired for the Leiden Museum in 1828, and contained the three statues of Maya and Meryt and other masterpieces from Saqqara. A second collection went to the British Museum in 1839, the remainder was auctioned in Paris in 1857.
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara..._Profiles.html

Jean Anastasi, an Armenian merchant from Damascus, served as Swedish Consul General in Egypt from 1828 to 1857.
http://www.agbu.org/agbunews/display.asp?A_ID=41

Our story begins with Giovanni d'Anastasi, collector of Egyptian antiquities extraordinaires. A successful merchant who saw the advantage of cashing in on Europe's taste in Egyptian antiquities, Anastasi employed several agents to gather antiquities for him, including one Piccinini who was working in Girga (Thinis) in 1828. Anastasi's full collections cut across boundaries of genre and time,but they were an amalgamation of smaller collections. He dispersed his massive collections in four installments: One of these was in 1826........
(Abracadabra, Isaac and Jacob Reviewed by John Gee "The book of Moses")

[yanni]

Having recognised and already commented the fact that the Rite of Mizraim originated 1782 in Zante, the undersigned accepts that the devil of "personal involvement" was and is ever present, personal beliefs, emotions, "gut feelings" fully contradicting, seemingly objective, "facts". It did not fit together, it did not all make sense for a long time now.

This "personal" element, making no science absolut, is at its best in the science of "papyrology": Fitting together old fragments and then interpreting the barely readable "document" and its hieroglyphics truly has a high margin of error, excusable, if and when sincere, in such science.

Promoting religious geopolitical agendas however is both inexcusable and punishable, a "scientific" crime and a hypocritic idiocy, particularly when commited by those few who bash, with their "democratic" banners and such "biblical authorship", other societies for their parallel backwardness and unparallel sincerity.

If "Abraxas" followed by "Walsamos" was enough to raise some eyebrows, then D'Anastasy=Cochin= Caussin=Caussiny "de Valbelle" (dit ou pas)=De Perceval=Saint Germain obviously makes the case important enough to be placed under the microscope and, for eyptologists (and descendants alike) caught with the hand in the jar, so to speak, "silence" could, can and will not be an option!

The next cherry to be added therefore to our 1826 "tourte extraordinaire", also dedicated to them in admiration, now reads as follows:

A Cochini Andrianna was born that year "fille de Demetrio-Giacomo de Dion. Cochini, noble de Zante et Anna, fille de Giorgio Balsamo, noble de Zante". Unlike next children of the couple (1828-1837), Andrianna's day of birth is not recorded meaning she was not born in Zante.

Marking the beginnining of the 1835 "event" and relative family "divide"-too little too late-1826 is an important year and, as such, it will be given a "royal" treatment next!

BTW: Seasonal wishes were previously expressed to "scholarly" readers propably going on extended leave soon. Author "Yanni the greek" will continue posting "pre 1827" topics for his other readers to year's end.

[yanni]

By "initiative" of a three member Zante commitee (Romas, Stefanou and Dragonas), infant "Modern Greece" has aalready applied, in 1825, for british protection.

January
the 1st, NewYear, Michel Pierre Cochini writes to Dragona from Missolonghi that their days are numbered and pleads for the protection, granted to his family- then in Zante for their safety(wife Maria with three infants, two sons, one daughter)-to be continued "afterwards".

The greek fleet supplying Missolonghi now faces the egyptians. Instead of confronting them, Miaoulis attempts to destroy the greek ships by fire, his sailors disobey orders saving the ships, nevertheless they all retreat on the 25th abandoning the town to the egyptian sea blockade-the turkish siege till then only by land- and bombardement. Ibrahim proposes honourable surrender to the fort's guard.

April .
Czar Alexandre signs Wellington's protocol securing Russia's neutrality, the 4th.
Missolonghi falls the 10th.
Ioannis Anastasiou is still on his diplomatic mission to Montenegro. Champollion meets him there and then begins his journey back to Paris (arrives October-November). On the 20th Ioannis Anast.Cochini is back in Hydra.

May
Maria from Zante, the 4th, in her petition to the provisional greek government, pleads for assistance: She has no news of her husband's fate, her children are starving
In Paris Count Capodistria witnesses the inauguation of the egyptian department of the Louvre créé le 15 mai 1826 par ordonnance royale de Charles X.

June
In Zante, the 6th, Nicollo Messala, trustee-guardian of the corresponding part of late(1807) count Nic.Salomon's estate, transfers title and money to the hires, the late count's "love" children, brothers Dimitrio and Dionisio Salomon. One of the two legal sons, Roberto, is already in possession of the rest of said estate, the other, Ioannis Leontarakis (whose mother married count Niccolo while he was in his last days) being refused his rightfull inheritance part. Curiously enough, N.Messala, son of the late noble Stefano (1750-1823, consul of France), has also passed away in 1821. (This minor detail has escaped the attention of scholarls who have studied and published the Salomon vs Leontarakis legal process of 1832-1837).

Il 16 giugno 1826 Jean Francois rivide Angelica (ch'egli chiamava col nome arabo di Zelmire) a Pisa, per la Luminaria di San Ranieri, poi per l'ultima vo lta a Livorno nel settembre dello stesso anno....Lo Champollion risiedeva a Montenero.

July
In Alex the first-ever armenian becomes chevalier de l'ordre Wasa, consul of Sweden. The first "Cataloque General de la Collection" published by his "serviteur & amis" P.Lavison.
Yanni's uncle, hugenot merchant James La Fontaine, is buried in Smyrne, the 3rd of the month. Yanni's brother, Lazaro Musiu, is active at the time with Const.Canaris under admiral Nic.Androutso in Samos.
Charles-Etienne Bonfort, with his father (Yanni's uncle) are in command of two Cochini vessels supplying the egyptian fleet. One vessel is confiscated, they go bankrupt, father dies in Alex where:
..i francesi costruiscono un arsenale per la marina militare nei cui reparti lavoreranno più di quattromila operai e il cui personale direttivo sarà quasi tutto italiano.

September
The greek fleet returns the 4th of September to Hydra
Maria pleads from Aegina, September the 9th: She has been moved about the Ionian isles starving, she writes and asks assistance for herself and her daughter. Her sons, Petros and Stylianos "Cochino" have been sent, in the meantime, to brit-controlled Bornova, Smyrne, to the care, propably, of J. Lafontain's "Cochine" widow, daughter of Lazare Cochini.

For his forthcoming book on Napoleon Walter Scott visited London, was received with great honour, breakfasted with KingGeorge IV and gave sittings to painters. In Paris he met King Charles X and other famous people and saw the opera based on Ivanhoe. All this uplifted Sir Walter and encouraged him to press on with his herculean task.

October Lazaro Musiou is imprisoned in Malta(to June 1827) by the brits.

Capodistria from Geneva writes his report to the Tzar in November, the first american made frigate arrives December to be placed under "greek admiral general", his exclellency Lord Cochran and his french cook (Napoleon's).

In same year:

-Cochini Andrianna, daughter of a Dimitri Jaques Denis Cochin+Balsamo, is born as per previous post.

-In Paris The Mother Lodge of the Philosophie Scottish Rite, ceased its labors in 1826. In 1806 Thory enriched it with...most valuable of works formerly belonging to the Library of the Philalethes, Lodge of the Amis Reunis..... upwards of 2000 volumes -- to the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1849 ..

-also in Paris, propably at year's end, a philantropist Jean Denis Cochin makes his first- web-appearance:
En 1826, rue de Gobelins, il assemble quelques petits enfants de 2 à 6 ans, Il ouvre la première salle d'asile dans deux chambres. Elle est “née d’une pensée de charité religieuse, après appréciation de notre état social” écrit-il. Il y dirige lui-même les enfants et imagine une méthode. Il enseigne à ceux qui veulent être maîtres.

In New York: Morgan.....William is murdered after publishing his "Illustrations of Masonry" in 1826 in which he purported to reveal the ritual and degrees of American Freemasonry and he stated that he would very soon be revealing additional material.At this time New York Governor DeWitt Clinton was the leader of the Columbian Lodge of the Illuminati and was no doubt frightened or intimidated about the potential exposure.....