Józef Piłsócki

Libya 2006/2011

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Sabratha, west of Tripoli.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011. In these dark days of Libya with fire and blood, through my mind unforgotten pictures of our trip in October 2006. We were two, Yves, my brother and me, because the agency assumed Pharaoh departures from two passengers, and because the country, they said, had a bad reputation, did not attract tourists. We performed the whole journey by taxi, the driver is our guide, the ideal, no doubt.

Brother Yves Benghazi


A sea blue like the sky at which it flies its color, a side bristling with Greek and Roman ruins, a narrow strip of land rich in cultures and the infinite desert: four parallel strips of unequal widths cover the whole country from west to east.

Historically, the same succession of periods of foreign occupation: the antiquity of civilization Berber and Islamic footprint Italian anonymous modern world ...
Tripoli, the capital, offers all visitors.

The Arch of Marcus Aurelius.

Rue de la medina, which leads to the consulate of France.


City "Italian".

The modern Tripoli.

No women, but a man
This is surprising when one discovers Libya after traveling in most Muslim countries from Morocco to Uzbekistan, is the near absence of women in the streets. It is true that we were there during Ramadan, the explanation given to us by our guide. But
cons, displayed across large, the photo Mu'amar Gaddafi, the "guide" the immovable Jamahiriyya ("State of the Masses").
Both on the facade of the old citadel, now modern and rich National Museum, among the huge Green Square and the Medina ...


... in nature, as here, east of Benghazi, near the monument commemorating where the party is hot young colonel make his Revolution.

Why going to Libya?
At 26, I went to live and work in Morocco where I stayed for seven years, and that's when I discovered that we could live differently. I studied history, Islam, its official religion, and I finally speak enough Arabic dialect words, to communicate with the Berbers and Arabs who are not fluent enough or not at all French. I am passionate about this culture so different from ours, I am enriched to contact.
income to the fold, I wanted to keep in touch with the Foodland my years of training, and learn about other countries that reminds me of Morocco.
So I wanted them all, from Algeria to Uzbekistan, missing only Iraq, but adding the mysterious and fascinating Yemen.

Meeting.


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Our trip to Libya
From west to east, on beautiful roads with little traffic.

Sabratha Theatre
theater of Sabratha is a World Heritage by UNESCO since 1982. His pulpitum just below the stage floor, is particularly well preserved.
Leptis Magna
The arch of Septimius Severus, at the site entrance
Leptis Magna, birthplace of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, who reigned from 193 to 211, was recognized in antiquity as one of the largest cities of the Empire.
Leptis Magna
Theatre
Theatre, the first of its kind in Africa, was built in the first century AD.

Benghazi The Italian cathedral Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica. Almost completely destroyed during the Second World War, the city was hastily rebuilt.

Cyrene
Lower City and the Sanctuary of Apollo

Cyrene forum in the upper town
Cyrene was the first Greek city in Africa. The ruins date back to most of the reconstruction of the city by Emperor Hadrian after the Jewish revolt of 115-117.

Al Athrun early Christian Church


Qasr al-Haj Grenier fortified
We left the coastal road and we plunge into the countries. Before reaching the desert, we returned several fortified granaries to look outside of fortresses near Berber villages. Inside, open many overlapping cells in which the villagers would store their crops in order to protect it from theft or robbery.



Well in the desert


Ghadames Sufi Mosque in Medina


Ghadames Street and covered wells light in the medina
The old city was built in the thirteenth century in the tradition of Berber architecture. It was built to deal with both large summer heat - up to 55 ° - and some harsh winter. It is a maze of alleyways and tunnels drilled at regular intervals of skylights. Now abandoned - a modern city was built next door - the city has benefited from a rehabilitation program funded by the United Nations.

would have had to continue our journey to the fascinating Tadrart Akakus with engravings from the prehistoric and tribal art, but it was Yves already made a few months earlier, so ... engravings can expect some more ... or forever ...

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At the port of Verdon

At the end of the tip of the Medoc, the Port du Verdon is home to many interesting specialized vessels.

The most important of these is the Biscay buoy Lighthouse & Beacons ( sheet).

Beside him Pointe de Grave , also Lights & Beacons ( sheet) and boat drivers Bordeaux.


few meters you will find the ferry terminal at Royan, line served by Gironde , built in 2002 ( sheet ) et Le Verdon de 1978 maintenant désarmé ( fiche technique ).




At the northern part of the Médoc area well known for its famous red wines, on the left bank of Gironde, Le Verdon hosts several special purpose ships. You can see there buoy tenders Gascogne , the smaller Pointe de Grave , and pilots boats of Bordeaux harbour. Beside these boats, is located "Royan - Pointe Grave" ferry terminal welcoming La Gironde (built 2002) and the now laid up ferry Le Verdon (built 1978).


Les liens vers les fiches techniques renvoient au site well documented www.cargos-paquebots.net . Technical data from excellent website www.cargos-paquebots.net .

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Montreuil-Bellay, a new entry in the city

Toussenel Who runs the place, at the top of the Avenue du Pont Napoleon, difficult to imagine that this entry in the old town is not very old. One has to only look at the foot of houses that border it and find several more or fewer steps before entering the ground floor to find that something has changed.
dotted yellow arrows: Steps leading to ground floor.
full yellow arrow: Primitive Rock cafe under the old Moreau.

This place has only existed since 1772. Previously, we arrived at Saumur on the right bank of Thouet, and not the other shore as now. A street leading from the Porta Nuova to the Porte Saint-Jean where they continued to Thouars.

Skip To Thouet. From yesterday to today
In the Middle Ages, a traveler coming down the street from Angers Goat, found at the bottom of the hill a pedestrian or carting arrived via Saumur Le Coudray-Macouard. Both crossed the Thouet by a ford upstream of the Tower of Boëlle. So either they climbed into the upper town by the Rue du Tertre, between the castle and market square, or they went around the escarpment at the foot of the Ardennes to continue to Thouars and Loudun.
the fifteenth century, the lords built a line parallel bridges to ford.

Aligned Two bridges joining the two banks based on a central island. Right bank, the bridge between the docked Boëlle tower and a toll station, the Auberge des Isles today, not shown above. (Painting on a beam of the House Dovall)

There remain several more ruined arches cons and the left bank of the pillars in the river bed.

When these successive bridges collapsed in 1577, a ferry - it was then charriere - transshipped pedestrians and carts from one bank to another at the Moulin de la Porte.


















On the left of this drawing of Gaignières of 1699, the ferry that went from the left bank at the foot of the Thouet mill of the castle, right bank.





















Former median docking of the left bank charriere Thouet.


in 1710 was finally decided to build a new bridge at the site of the present, but leaning to the left bank. After crossing, we gained the upper city along the property of fishmeal and borrowing the moat to reach the place des Ormeaux after crossing the Fountain Gate now completely disappeared.

map dated from 1772 indicating the crossing of Thouet before the drilling of the ramp.
- A: Entry Bridge (1710) left bank for travelers from Angers or Saumur.
- B: Bypass fishmeal.
- C: Former door Fontaine. Moat of the street was now lower than the current one.
- D: Place des Ormeaux.
- E: New Toussenel place. Laflèche to the right leads to the Porte Saint-Jean Thouars and Loudun to win.

It was pierced in 1772 as the boom of the Napoleon Avenue Bridge that allowed direct access to the closed city. To soften the slope, we lowered the top to the Hotel in London, before which we find the original soil. Hence all these steps lead to the ground floor reminiscent of the original level still visible in the bedrock of the old coffee Moreau.
The bridge collapsed in 1710 turn into 1798, causing the building in 1810, the current bridge called Napoleon, this time in the middle of the bed Thouet.

On 29 August 1944, this new bridge was destroyed in turn by the Germans who fled the region before the advancing Allies. A crossing was equipped Thouet slightly upstream the floor of the Hall from the mill but the bridge, badly arranged, was taken by the first flood of the River. A gateway
stronger and better secured adjoining the bridge was Napoleon. She served until February 10, 1948, the date of the inauguration of the rebuilt structure. We took advantage of its reconstruction to enlarge.

"march in step," he told is the entrance to the temporary footbridge adjoining the ruined bridge Napoleon since August 1944.

Passersby and motorists who have to do in the old town, or who have chosen to pass through rather than take the modern deviation, see these steps. They have a story you know now.

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Hospital St. Jean de Montreuil-Bellay

The former hospital of Montreuil-Bellay has been restored. It should become a museum.

Former St. John's Hospital, built in the fifteenth century by the lords of Harcourt, is leaning against the wall of the walled city, it borders the St. John Gate which gave access to the city to the south .

Below, the old church / hospital in the early twentieth century ...


... and February 2011.


Some architectural details:












When were added in the eighteenth century columns to wear a floor to accommodate the attic above the ward (see below), we mura old windows of the fifteenth and we opened new larger.


Mural in the chapel: St. Martin giving half his cloak to a poor but in reality giving the only one that belonged to him, the other is owned by the Legion.

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boat fire Havre

Built in 1935 in yards Graville, it was initially used in the North Sea, on the bench Dyck. In 1948 he was placed south of Cape LaHave off Le Havre and retired in 1981. Like all other boat traffic, then it is automatically replaced by a buoy. It is now part of the museum port of Le Havre.

Built in 1935 at Graville, She Was Used in North Sea, Dyck has place. Located off Le Havre from 1948 to 1981. Then removed and transferred is to Le Havre Museum.

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Controversy: The Concentration Camp of Montreuil-Bellay

This case is illustrated by three articles in a local newspaper and several of my photographs. Click above to enlarge.


in Montreuil-Bellay, it was a concentration camp. (header a command to an individual for a supply of apples-to-earth at the camp. Private Archives.)

Following what can only be called my "invention" in 1980 from the former camp concentration that has occurred in my town during the Second World War, and various publications during past thirty years, exchanging pleasantries made these days the joy of the regional press. I repeat here the articles published this first half of January. To you give you an opinion, it reinforces the mood of the city fathers Montreuillais or she encourages me to continue my work.


Courier West , Monday, January 3, 2011, made the camp a landmark event in the late 2010. The same evening, not one word on the subject over the wishes of the mayor of the town's citizens.

Three days later, the newspaper published the full ticket mood I sent him:


The mayor says the following Thursday:



recalled two courtesies of the former mayor talking about me, even published in the local press (from memory before returning items):
- ... individual who exploits the Gypsies to sell a few centimeters of paper.
- this so-called historian. To be a historian, he must have studied and have degrees.
Where we see that the tone is the same with the new mayor ... In
smile if I take the second. "Supposedly" would mean that I tell myself while historian I am always very happy to introduce myself as a former teacher. Think about this same strange expression that says: this so-called death ...

With some opportunity, that same Thursday 13 Jan r Courier West published six pages further on these lines in the section Men / Women :

Very pleased with this controversial, since it is especially important to me that we talk about this site in danger, and read the response from the mayor "that the camp should remain a place of memory and recollection" is a sweet thing.
Fun clear identification of any individual camp she tells me, but perhaps she had preferred to write any individual ; surprising to read that the only recognition of any individual replaces knowledge of the camp .

Beyond the fruitful polemic between persons not anonymous, a few reminders:

Trivia

are said "kindness" on me, the same tone - like, weird, weird ... - Those that already read in the press [ This individual who exploits the Gypsies to sell a few centimeters of paper ] or [... this so-called historian, a historian, he must have studied and have degrees ] while I've always said teacher.
We would be remiss Montreuillais criticize, saying the leaders of this camp, I never did. In this article Email , I even voluntarily censored, failing to write as if they were in 2011, the right to forget this camp - the mayor even wrote that the page is tour today - this camp was occasionally some during the war, the purpose of their Sunday walk. One family was even reported that harnessed the cart after the meal, we it placed the children and they were going for a ride Loudon Road to see if there were any new ones. And as the camp was seven miles, it passed the afternoon. It is true that distractions were rare at the time, and there was no television.

Positive

- Complicity and the precious companion editions Wallada , http://www.wallada.fr/nouveautes-2009-2010.html who first while the subject bothered, accepted to publish my work on this camp, and who have always been followed by new editions.

- The official recognition of the camp of Montreuil-Bellay in which France has interned - among others - Gypsies during the Second World War. The erection of a monument on the site January 16, 1988. The organization on the same site from April 1990, a national ceremony and annual tribute to Gypsy victims of the Second World War.

- The telegram sent to me by Simone Veil, 15 January 1988, the eve of the inauguration of the monument:



- The discovery and study of other similar camps in French territory and taken over in recent years, by young historians.

- Erection other stelae at other sites (Merignac, Arc-et-Senans, Poitiers, Avrillé les Culverts, Saliers, Barenton ...).

- Recognition for Gypsies, who were interned and, following the creation of records, many have received a card from political internee (sic) that allows them to receive a pension compensation.

- Several children have contacted me to learn the history of their families, mostly grandchildren of internees, and then together we can reconstruct the routes.

- In 1983, Jean-Louis Bauer, said Poulouche, wrote to me after discovering my work on the camp of Montreuil-Bellay in which he was interned with his family after those Mérignac and Poitiers, and before that Jargeau. From 1983 to 2007, the year of his death, we worked together. In 2010, the city of Poitiers has given his name to an alley near the former camp.

- The creation in 2005 of an association, The AMCT (Friends of the Memory of the Gypsy Camp de Montreuil-Bellay).

- July 8, 2010, in full chase Roma and Gypsies by vassals of the Elysee, the inscription of historical heritage sites.

The negative

- The refusal by the authorities requested, to support financially the cost of the monument erected in January 1988: Support slate was offered by a roofer Montreuil-Bellay, the purchase of plaque and engraving of text have been borne by private individuals.

- The disappearance unnecessarily , important remains (in the late 1990's the only building left standing on the spot shortly afterwards, columns of the old guard).

The only building left on site after the sale auctioned by Fields in October 1946 has now disappeared.

The columns of the old guard, facing the entrance of the camp, Panreux side, now extinct.

- Other remains protected today, would have suffered the same fate if the warning had been given had been decided when the construction of a roundabout at the junction of two roads Montreuil / Loudun and Meron / Panreux. Following targeted mailings, the roundabout has been diverted, then apparently deprogrammed.

- The refusal after application, removing some billboards "tendentious" located on the site of the camp. Only reminders in the media seem to have caused their disappearance.







- When almost all colleges and high schools in nearby towns of Montreuil-Bellay, to mention only the latter, invited me to one or more times evoke the history of this camp, I was never in the walls of the College of Montreuil. For cons, I was regularly by the Agricultural College, but students come to most of the outside. Thus, during my last speech, there was not one of the township.

- The ingratitude of some that I helped sometimes for years, their share everything I knew about this history, stories and iconography, and that their work is done, break off and disappear with the profits .. .

In conclusion

This conversation, during a working meeting in the sub-prefecture of Saumur in June 2008, was reported to me by someone who asked me, saw his duty reserve, not to mention his name. It is close enough from what I have often heard for the true thinking.
Response subprefect following a suggestion by the former mayor of Montreuil-Bellay, very embarrassed by my work on the camp, as saying that I was a pseudo historian He made a real historical work, worthy of an academic work and has the merit to exist. Without him we would not be here today.