>OIL PORTRAITS ARE VERY (even photos of) >TELLING DOCUMENTA. +FRENCH GENIUS+ >this piece was prompted by the portrait of an 18th century +FRENCH NOBLEMAN IN A WHIG AND POSESSING +PIERCING EYES+. >looking closer i realised that HIS VEINS RAN WITH ! +OUR BLOOD+ ! >reading further i realised that he had lived an admirable life. 1) +GUILLAUME de PAMPLUME+ >one of our most distinguished degruy / magny fouchard ancestors married +ANGELBERTE de AULNAY whose descendent +A. R. JACQUES TURGOT, BARON de AULNAY (1727-1781) >intendent of the limousin (1761-1774) >controleur general (1774-1776) >A LEADING FRENCH ECONOMIST FROM ANCIENT NOBILITY >(connections to the monarchy) +MORANBERT NOBLES+ >LORD de AULNAY / RHEGES patriarch with impressive +ROOSTER BLAZON+ (+ROOSTERS IN FRANCE+ >are very, very important creatures >(see the marvelous picasso graphic)) +BARON JACQUES de AULNAY+ >french genius/piercing eyes< >oil portrait featured in the important book on the french aristocracy "THE ANCIEN REGIME" by c.b.a. behrens >de AULNAY BLOOD WAS PROFUSE IN OUR EARLY CHAMPAGNE de GRUY ANCESTRY. 2) +MATHELIN de AULNAY+ >ECUYER, SEIGNEUR de MORAMBERT de FRAMPAS et de CHALETTE married +ANTOINETTE de RICHEBOURG+ very early in our champagne (15th/16th CENTURY) region history 3) at a later date..... +JEAN (de AIME) deAULNAY+ SEIGNEUR de CHALETTE married +CATHERINE BERTIN+. +A VERY RICH SYNERGY+ NOTE> i have discussed these distinguished early degruy ancestors intermarried in this 16 C. period in previous messages... VILLENEUVE VERLOING RICHEBOURG BERTIN >the AIME may connect to the famous valcour aime of (PETIT VERSAILLES) >louisiana plantation 18th c. heritage gene ray, sandiego, california