+AMAZING REVELATION+ >i was shocked yesterday to find that FRANCOIS MIGNON THE GENIUS OF MELROSE PLANTATION ON THE BEAUTIFUL CANE RIVER ***************************** >is written up by the university archive that posesses his life papers as having lived at melrose using an alias. *********************** +I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PLANTATION AS BEAUTIFUL AS MELROSE WAS WHEN HE WAS IN CHARGE OF (transcendent) >THE AESTHETIC STRUCTURE OF THAT RADIANT ISLE +OF IMAGINATION.+ ******************* >i have written about my experiences at melrose during the 1960s while visiting francois in my previous messages for you with stress ******************************* +ON PLANTATION HOUSES AS ISLANDS OF FRENCH ART, POETRY, CULTURE and francois was a genius of this approach to melding elements of the +FRENCH TROPIC SYNDROME+ ***************************** (quality of perception very >close to my heart) ****************** +ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY+ >interestingly i discovered this story regarding francois via my letters to him being listed on the web log of the university holding +HIS PRECIOUS ARCHIVE+ ************************ +HE CREATED HIMSELF & A WORLD OF SEERING FRENCH CULTURE USING THE ORGANIC TOOLS OF HIS ADOPTED LAND. (french/african remote artistic and agrarian >+environment) ************* +MORE FRENCH THEN FRANCE+ >apparently francois was not born in france but lived there as a youth. ********************************** >NOTHING WILL EVER DIMINISH THE MAGNIFICENT WORLD OF BEAUTY (unique and fantastic) +CREATED AT MELROSE BY THE GENIUS: FRANCOIS MIGNON ++++++++++++++++++ >(without francois there would have >been no clementine hunter< +HE CREATED HER+ >she was the cook for cammie garret henry the owner of >melrose plantation ) ******************* +RECOGNITION LONG OVERDUE+ >francois' real name was un-aesthetic this may have been the source of his deception but someday his genius WILL MAKE HIS NAME FAMOUS. ********************************* gene ray, san diego, california (google) eugenerayart.com