Sébastien Jean Marie SONNERY is selected as the Mayor of Chamelet by the Préfet

Posted on June 26, 2023 • No Comments

The Resignation of Mayor MARIZY is accepted. Source - Document Archives départementales du Rhône et de la métropole de Lyon 3353 W2 Mr. SONNERY is selected as Mayor of Chamelet by the Préfet Délégué of Rhône. Under the authority of of the Vichy Law of 13th Nov 1941. Here is[...]

Le Cocon

Posted on June 19, 2023 • No Comments

Map of Le Cocon Circa 1938 SOURCE - Archives du département du Rhône et de la métropole de Lyon 04544, 5564W23 What is clear is that on the 19th of December 1943, M.Sonnery was arrested, and the temporary refuge of the Maquis at Le Cocon was destroyed. According to Roger[...]

Charles Arsène MARIZY resigns as Mayor of Chamelet

Posted on June 8, 2023 • No Comments

The Resignation letter of Mayor MARIZY Source - Document Archives départementales du Rhône et de la métropole de Lyon 3353 W2 Photo : Charles BRÉCHARD Charles Arsène Marizy has been Mayor of Chamelet for only 57 days. There were no Conseil Municipal meetings during this period, so no deputies were[...]

Charles Arsène MARIZY becomes Mayor of Chamelet

Posted on April 12, 2023 • No Comments

Jean Joseph THOLIN has been dead for 18 days, and his Deputy, Charles Arsène MARIZY, has been managing Chamelet. That day, the Prefect of the Rhône, M. Jean DISSARD, using Vichy Law, wrote to the Sub-Prefect of Villefranche accepting his recommendation that Charles MARIZY be charged with the duties of[...]

Charles Arsène MARIZY is nominated as Mayor

Posted on March 29, 2023 • No Comments

80 years ago today It has now been four days since the Mayor of Chamelet, Jean Joseph THOLIN passed away. His deputy Charles Arsène MARIZY signed his death certificate for the Commune. [Source: Death certificates - Town Hall of Chamelet] The question now was who would replace THOLIN as Mayor.[...]

The Death of Joseph THOLIN.

Posted on March 25, 2023 • No Comments

Jean Joseph Tholin was the Mayor of Chamelet when on 25th March 1943, he died "of natural causes". He was born in Amplepuis on 1st February 1876, the son of Jean Marie Tholin and Marie Claudine Dumas.[Rhône Archives 4E6183] He was married in the 17th Arrondissement of Paris to Marthe-Marie[...]

Defeat and Division.

Posted on January 12, 2023 • No Comments

‘A clear-eyed, ambitious and myth-busting account that places the Fall of France in 1940 and De Gaulle’s Free French in a wider scenario that sees Vichy France and its colonial empire as a serious military player down to 1942. A tour de force by a historian who is a master[...]

Fort Montluc

Posted on April 10, 2019 • No Comments

Montluc Prison is a former prison located in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France. During the occupation of France, it was known for being an internment, torture and execution site used by the Gestapo. It was initially a military prison, opened in 1921 and used as such by the Vichy[...]

Jean Marie at Fort Montluc

Posted on April 9, 2019 • No Comments

Montluc prison is a former prison located on rue Jeanne Hachette in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France. It was known for being an internment, torture and killing place by the Gestapo during the occupation of France by the Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montluc_prison Sebastien Jean-Marie Sonnery was bought to Gestapo HQ in Lyon on Sunday 19th December 1943. The HQ was located[...]

Final Day – Day 17 – Woodhall Spa to IBCC

Posted on July 27, 2018 • No Comments

To The International Bomber Command Centre After 17 days of riding, today was the final day. It was a comparatively short run from Woodhall Spa along the Sustrans route into Lincoln. I didn’t manage the Steep Hill up to Lincoln, my legs are finally starting to suffer. After a quick[...]