Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Michelene Bouilhaguet. Michelene was born on 23 Aug 1921 in Malakoff, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France; died on 13 Feb 2013 in Paris 14ème, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Clarisse (Adrien) Alcon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Occupation: 1930, Lecturer in French, University of Sydney, Australia.

Residence: 1943, Freidorf, Switzerland.

A record of his various activities in Switzerland, e.g.: notice biographique dans le Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français (Maitron): "En 1933, il revint en Suisse, où l'USC lui confia la réaction de la presse coopérative sous la direction du Dr. Henry Faucherre à la charge duquel il succéda en 1945-1946 en qualité de membre de la direction de l'USC, chef du Département presse., éducation et propagande."

June 1970, honorary degree, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Education: Sorbonne, Paris

Charles married Gertrude-Micheline (Michel) Agelasto on 20 Mar 1929 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Gertrude-Micheline (daughter of Michel Demosthenes (Demosthenes) Agelasto and Gertrude Betty Adelheid Milde) was born on 12 Jan 1907 in rue Daguerre 92, Paris 14ème, Île-de-France, France; died on 23 May 1988 in Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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unknown to Argenti

The natural daughter of Michel Agelasto and Gertrude Mildé. After her father's death 1915, she and her mother were forced to leave France for Geneva due to her mother's German nationality. WW I had interrupted Michel's plans to marry Gertrude; after his death his friend Paul Rodocanachi arranged a sort of annuity, approved by French President Raymond Poincaré, a friend of Michel, who had authorized an exemption to permit their marriage. Michel Demosthene Agelasto's paternity is annotated on her birth certificate, 11 Aug 1914, and this was formally accepted by the mother, 26 Mar 1915, at the city hall, Monléon-Magnoac, Hautes-Pyrénées.

Her portrait was drawn by her art tutor, Henri Matisse, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris, late November or December 1914. Charcoal on paper 35 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.), signed l.r.: Henri-Matisse. Plate 30 in Portraits par Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse, ed., André Sauret, pub., Paris, 1954). Printing limited to 2,850 copies, numbered 1 to 2,850, of which 500 were printed in English, numbered 1,501 to 2,000. Printing of the English edition was completed 1 Feb 1955.

Residence: 81 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris; 1915- Geneva; -1929, Paris; 1930, Australia; 1944- Freidorf, Switzerland.

Education: Sorbonne, Paris.

She exhibited at the Lyceum Club, Sydney, Australia, 4 Apr 1930 (The Sydney Mail, 19 Mar 1930, p. 30).

Gertrude Barbier of Basil exhibited a watercolor "The Window" at the 38th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 7 Sep 1944, p. 6). She exhibited a 'portrait rapidly removed' at the 39th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 19 Sep 1946, p. 6).

Artist. Name is on artprice.com website, Dec 2009.

Birth:
She was born in the domicile of the mid-wife.

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Married:
The marriage of Gertrude M Agelasto and Charles H Barbier was registered in 1929, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia: registration no. 2567 (LDS microfilm).