"WE DO NOT ALWAYS KNOW WHEREIN LIES OUR GOOD. THAT IS WHY IT IS BEST TO ASSUME THAT GOOD ALWAYS COMES FROM FOLLOWING THE PATH OF TRUTH." Mahatma Gandhi
L'DALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
The Alliance Française has for over one hundred years promoted Langage, Respect de la Civilisation, Culte de L’Amitie, Amour d’un Beau . . . loosely translated . . . mutual respect and love for our languages, civilizations, friendships and not least of all, beauty. French and Francophile alike living in the Villes partenaires will be shocked, embarrassed and possibly outraged when reading the story of how one woman, Andrée "Show me the money" King lied, libeled, slandered, cuckolded and committed adultery using L'Alliance Française de Charlottesville as her base of OPÉRATION. Madame King is a modern-day Madame Du Barry sans finesse who has violated every tenet of her organization's mission including the local Charlottesville Alliance Française establishing "a cultural dialogue in a pleasant and friendly environment."
This is a cautionary tale neither for the impatient nor the easily offended. It often reads like a soap opera; in fact we believe Madame King patterned her fantasies after a soap opera, the most likely being "Desperate Housewives" an American television show exposing the dark side of suburbia. We promised sex, lies, and steamy love letters . . . well, sort of steamy . . . kind of ridiculous and pathetic as you will see. We begin with a fundamental lie.
LIE: Madame has been touting herself as Founding President of L'Alliance Française de Charlottesville for years. Nous ne pensons pas ainsi! According to The Foundation Directory OnLine records for the period beginning July 1, 2002 and ending June 30, 2003, L'Dalliance Française Charlottesville lists on its Exempt From Income Tax Form 990 Roger Ketcham as President and Andrée King as Vice President. The same is true of Exempt From Income Tax Form 990 for the period beginning July 1, 2003 and ending June 30, 2004 which Madame King signed. Who is Roger Ketcham? He is not listed in local Charlottesville telephone directories and is nowhere to be found on the internet with the exception of the above-linked tax forms and FRANCE-AMÉRIQUE listing for the Charlottesville Alliance Française chapter where he is listed, also listing Mme. (Mrs.) Andrée Madec (maiden name) -King as Directrice (Director).We smell a mouse!
"IS IT THE GOOD TURTLE SOUP OR MERELY THE MOCK?" Frank Sinatra from At Long Last Love (1956).
LIE: Speaking of touting, "Tout en Française" is a television program lasting one-half hour airing Fridays on Charlottesville Public Access TV Channel 13 at 1:30 p.m., produced and Hosted by Andrée King. The program changes once a month and is promoted on the Charlottesville Alliance Française website Media/Resources page as "A French program geared towards children with “l’heure du conte,” story time, vocabulary lists, history, geography and culture of France. Special guests are also featured."
February/March 2007: "Special guests" were Irving Boberski Chairman of the Board, Andrée Madec-King Founding President, and Roulhac Toledano who is listed on the Alliance Française Home Page as a member of the Board of Directors. The program begins with Chairman Boberski introducing Mrs. King and stating in recognition of Madame's exemplary work in the community and the Jumelage effort she would receive the Order of Merit from the French Ambassador. Chairman Boberski then announced that the Board had implemented the Alliance Française Foundation which will hold and manage an endowment fund out of which staff would be paid. The Chairman also stated that the Board was reaching out to the broad Charlottesville community for support. Show me the money! The "geography and culture of France" portion of the show consisted of a slide show of the Alliance Française 2006 trip to Besançon and commentary. Madame King referred to the statued niches in the formal gardens of the Château de Jallerange as "surprises" which were "favoured" by courtesans. Madame also smirkily stressed the trips to France sponsored by Alliance Française were not for "tourists" and that the trip participants would stay in châteaus and wine and dine in only the "best" places. IDEAL FOR CHILDREN!
March/April, 2007: The program aired in conjunction with the Virginia Festival of the Book. Alliance Française Member Readers James Heffernan and Avril Largiader read in French and English L'Homme du Hazard by Yasmina Reza, a play about a famous aging novelist riding a train striking up a conversation with a young female stranger who just happens to be reading his latest novel. IDEAL FOR CHILDREN! Three graying, middle-aged people (the two readers and Madame) reading and talking about an old coot flirting with a young woman. Of course, the conversation was couched in high intellectual wit and repartee. Other works by Madame Reza include a stage adaption of Kafka's Metamorphosis and Conversations After A Burial. To top it off the program is sponsored by the French linen store Palais Royal; wonder if Madame attended the infamous Palais Royal Christmas party in Charlottesville where François the local French boss suggestively dressed in leather S and M style gyrated over a college-aged stripper on her hands and knees wearing only thong panties, brandishing his crop while his favorite female employees similarly dressed in leather bumped and grinded him on? IDEAL FOR CHILDREN!
May 4, 2007: $BUSINESS AS USUAL$ The current program resembled a French QVC. Marianne Dupoteau, owner of Belles Gemmes, was the featured guest. Another woman participated and the three were adorned with necklaces consisting of various semi-precious stones and natural pearls strung hippie-bead style. Mrs. King touted the product as prestigious, having "mystique," designed for the discriminating woman - casual, active, seductive. The program was spoken in French until the very end when Mrs. King spoke in English mentioning James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson and Monticello, comparing the guest's "belles gemmes" to the Indian-crafted jewelry in Monticello's collection. What a laugh! SEE FOR YOURSELVES . . .
One can purchase from Madame Dupoteau a Dog Collar for the "reasonable" price of 830.00 € including tax, equalling approximately 1,130.00 USD or if the dog collar does not suit then why not a Cascade Necklace for 4,300.00 € TTC, equalling approximately 5,800.00 USD? So, speak in French, refer to historical figures and places . . . L'Dalliance Française mission accomplished . . . SHOW US THE MONEY!
UPDATE: August, 2007 . . . Still selling Dog Collars. Wow, more free advertising than Madame Dupoteau would ever purchase although she certainly can afford to at the $$$ charged.
IDEAL FOR CHILDREN! Read on . . . you will be shocked to find Mrs. King openly cavorting with a married man while her teenaged son during the impressionable ages of thirteen to seventeen, resided in her home on "Easy" Lane and her husband/ex-husband lived a few blocks down the road. Is this the sort of person that citizens, fellow Alliance Française members, private donors and corporate sponsors want interacting with The Renaissance School, St. Anne's-Belfield, Monticello High School and Albemarle High School children among others? WE THINK NOT.
"FOR HERE WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO FOLLOW TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY LEAD." Thomas Jefferson
DO THE MATH. These records also show that from 1999 through 2001 AFC revenues increased very nicely approximately $10,000 per year. The opposite occurred in the July 2002-June 2003 period; revenue decreased an astounding $17,170 from $64,644 to $47,474. Yet a whopping $8,824 the largest expenditure that period was spent on meals and entertainment, a full TWENTY PERCENT of total revenue for that year, a year for which a $1,921 loss was claimed! That's a lot of wining and dining (SEE our discussion epicurism) for people working four hours per week as stated on Form 990 (2002). The next largest amount of $11,095 was paid to "Andree King, Vice President" for teaching French classes." Also, $4,500 was set aside for trip to Besançon. That leaves Andrée "Show me the money" King and her small circle of friends benefitting quite sufficiently from a budget losing money like a sieve and operating in the red.
IT GET'S WORSE. Once again during the next period July 2003-June 2004 total revenues dropped $12,543 from $47,474 to $34,931, a figure substantially lower than total revenue for 1998 which was $38,515. Membership fees received dropped from $6,315 the previous period to $4,635 again lower than the $5,655 membership fees received in 1998. A paltry $1,605 was received from direct public support that year. Predictably, one might say “Oh so what . . . who gives a mouse’s butt?” Answer; "normally, no one." STAY WITH US . . .
"ORATION ON VOLTAIRE: There is only one power, conscience, in the service of justice: and there is only one glory, genius, in the service of truth." Victor Hugo
JULY 6, 2005 . . . the day a local Virginia landed gentleman from one of Charlottesville oldest families cancelled his trip to Besançon, France for which he was scheduled to leave that same day and informed his devoted wife of fifteen years of his illicit affair with Mrs. Andrée Madec-King, that his trip to Besançon was not a business trip but a trip with Madame to meet her family as Madame fully intended to marry him. To his wife's credit, her calm and we think classy response was "Well, I suppose the honeymoon is over."
Madame King went on to France without the gentleman and from the moment she landed her harassment of the gentleman, his wife, his attorney and his friends began via e-mail and the telephone. No doubt, as the many planned activities in anticipation of the trip were for naught and the embarrassment great. The plan was to tour the pleasure gardens of properties which had been opened "because of the privileged bonds that Monsieur Lionel Estavoyer maintained with their owners." M. Estavoyer has authored a book on these gardens. The stage had been meticulously set in this "astonishing, refined world" by Madame King. First, mère et famille and then on to the pleasure gardens.
THE GENTLEMAN WAS NO ANGEL: The gentleman's wife learned in the ensuing days the sordid nature of an affair that began as a one-night stand approximately end of Fiscal Year 2001 which was just about the time Alliance Française de Charlottesville began its nosedive into the RED. Be clear, we are not giving the gentleman a pass. He, the gentlewoman discovered to her dismay, had been "bounding" for a number of years. One truth Madame spoke in her quest to destroy the gentlewoman as recounted below is "I am not the only one." He participated fully until he ended the affair which if you STAY WITH US will find was not an easy task.
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: Again, we are not judging simply presenting the undisputed facts. To be fair the truth is Mrs. King is ambitious, smart, accomplished in English, short and long-term goal oriented; all, we can agree, positive traits. Madame as an immigrant living in this country a relatively short period of time has certainly made quite a name for herself. The question is "what could have happened" to Mrs. King to justify her behavior and methods? We shall never know. We do know it is always unfortunate to see anyone descend into demise personally and professionally as has Andrée Madec-King.
"TRUTH IS GENERALLY THE BEST VINDICATION AGAINST SLANDER." Abraham Lincoln
Be clear also that this IS NOT simply about an affair; obviously infidelity is not ideal, however these things happen in life and hopefully can be dealt with in a civilized manner. That was the thinking of the gentlewoman until the day she agreed to Madame King's paying a visit to her home soon after Madame King returned from France (mid-July) to try and come to some sort of resolution. WRONG. This IS about Mme. Andrée "Show me the money" King's attempt to destroy a long-term, loving marriage and more unusual to destroy a person. We all know spouses stray, adultery is committed, and divorce may ensue; in America fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Pamela Druckerman, in her family and relationship book Lust In Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee, reveals many interesting facts. For instance, ". . . ordinary French people cheat a bit less than Americans do, which is to say that about 3.8 per cent of married French men and two per cent of married French women say they've had an affair in the past year," " . . . the French believe . . . especially when it comes to adultery -- in discretion . . ." and "In France . . . You might prefer not to know what's happening, and to resolve it in some other way . . .." Appears to us a role reversal occurred. To that point, when the gentlewoman attempted welcome Mrs. King with a buss to her cheek, Mrs. King pulled away and said, "In France we shake hands." The gentlewoman knew better as her mother is European. We also know that people lie; lies of survival, defensive lies, lies of desperation. However, Mrs. King's deceits qualify as slander and libel. Madame is fortunate the gentlewoman is just that, a gentlewoman, resisting the urgings of family and friends to seek legal action. The gentleman's mother would have had the gentlewoman file suit to recover the defrauded funds; the gentleman's attorney stated to the gentlewoman regarding a protective order "It is not only your right, it is your duty."
Apparently Madame has no idea that she has a sauté le requin this time and in doing so has incensed and provoked the ire of a group of people who love their Villes partenaires, who believe there is no place on either side for anyone who behaves as Mrs. King has behaved and continues to behave, and who believe in KARMA: you know, "cause and effect;" "what goes around, comes around;" "you get what you give" and other hackneyed adages. Oh, but we are children of our times so we in truth must admit we relish good old fashioned RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION! We are human, after all.
"THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH AND BEAUTY IS A SPHERE OF ACTIVITY IN WHICH WE ARE PERMITTED TO REMAIN CHILDREN ALL OUR LIVES." Albert Einstein
Mid-July, 2005 . . . Mrs. King emphatically introduced herself upon entering the gentlewoman's home, with a flourish of the head, "I AM ANDRÉE." The Madame was dressed to kill (no metaphor here) head to toe in RED; RED dress hemline well above the knees, RED lipstick, and yes, RED shoes. Appropriate. Madame King refused the gentlewoman's hospitality of a cool glass of wine or water and got down to business.
Madame King began by telling the gentlewoman that she cared not an iota for the gentlewoman and that the gentlewoman was to stop "interfering" with Madame King and the gentleman. Madame King spent the next two hours relating her own story of l'affaire to the gentlewoman including the length and breadth of Madame's sexual relationship with the gentleman, bragging regarding the frequency of coitus per week. Mrs. King also related that she was unaware that the gentleman was married and upon the morning of their first night spent together Mrs. King asked him if he was married and when he replied "yes" Mrs. King asked the gentleman "What are we going to do?" We think we know what they did! The gentlewoman quietly made the point that middled-aged women generally get to know someone before "hopping into the sack;" the gentlewoman also stated that it was impossible for Madame not to have known the gentleman's marital status and that Madame was lying. We have in our possession a document from the late Nineties at which time the gentleman and his wife had been together for almost a decade showing without any doubt that the gentleman and his mistress had worked together. Madame then proceeded to accuse the gentlewoman of being cold, manipulative, extremely negative, unable to get along with friends and family, non-contributory to the marriage and unable to understand her husband as Madame King understood him, explaining that she was French, sophisticated and even that there were "others" for which Madame allowed. Madame King also accused the gentlewoman of knowing about the affair, stating "women know these things." Nothing could have been further from the truth.
Madame King informed the gentlewoman that she, Madame King, would be getting a divorce for the gentleman from the gentlewoman and that the gentlewoman would have no right to the gentleman's property, specifying land and family antiques, and that Madame herself would have them upon marriage to the gentleman. Needless to say the gentlewoman said very little and the gentleman said nothing, literally sinking lower and lower into his chair. Finally the gentlewoman told her husband that she had heard enough and if Madame King made him happy that he should leave with Madame. The gentleman left with Madame King. We have a fourth-party witness to the entire episode, a dear family friend of years who just happened to be visiting when Madame King arrived. Thank goodness for a mouse on the wall!
The devastated gentlewoman cried all night, not just because of her husband's sexual betrayal and not just because of her disgust of the details Madame King so gleefully related in the gentleman's presence. It was so much more than she wanted or needed to know. The gentlewoman was cut to the quick by the vitriolic manner in which Madame spoke to and about the gentlewoman whom Mrs. King had not met until the previous day; the gentlewoman was truly agonized by the arrogance and vulgarity Madame King exhibited. The gentlewoman was not prepared for the disrespect and outright malevolence Madame King displayed that day upon the kind invitation to come into the gentlewoman's home. The dear family friend stayed with the gentlewoman that night.
In the first hours of the gentlewoman's despair after her husband's leaving with his mistress the gentlewoman destroyed the Journal of her very private wedding and removed for the first time the wedding ring engraved with the word "Forever" her husband had placed on her finger many years ago. The wayward husband returned to his wife early next morning, expressing his guilt, shame and disgust for not only his actions but for the gentlewoman's experience the previous day with Mrs. King. He made it clear that he was willing to try to repair the damage to his wife and marriage. He stated that he had no further interest in any interaction with the Madame. The gentlewoman agreed to give it a try. Wow . . . were they in for a surprise!
"A LIE TOLD OFTEN ENOUGH BECOMES THE TRUTH." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
DESPERATION . . . The culmination of Mrs. King's efforts was the trip to France with the gentleman under the guise of a business trip which fell through at literally the last moment providing a major crack in the OPÉRATION. Madame was not about to accept defeat; not only had she represented herself to friends and family as the future wife of the gentleman, the gentleman had been pouring $$$$$$$ into her coffer for quite some time and Madame was not prepared to let her CASH steer loose. Madame King orchestrated a campaign of harassment against the gentleman and especially his wife not to be believed. BELIEVE IT! It is time we get down to business.
CUCKOLD: The mainstay of Andrée "Show me the money" King's OPÉRATION was the misrepresentation of her husband, Richard C. King. The story told is the first marriage took place in France and the first "nasty" divorce took place . . . we do not know where. The story continues with a second marriage taking place . . . we do not know where . . . and following a second "nasty" divorce took place . . . we do not know where. We cannot locate any marriage and/or divorce papers recorded either in Albemarle County where the Kings have been domiciled for over two decades, or in the entire State of Virginia. We did locate an instrument recorded July 9, 1993 in Albemarle County wherein Andrée M. King/Andrée Madec-King granted Power of Attorney to Richard C. King which is odd; usually Power of Attorney is transferred if a person is not capable of making legal decisions.
Another matter of PUBLIC RECORD . . . (Scroll down on the link page to General District Courts and click through.) September, 2001: Madame King was convicted in absentia of a misdemeanor traffic charge. Many Virginians have an infraction and/or misdemeanor or two on their driving records. That said, everyone knows what "no show" means, especially judges. When summoned to court one must appear, tell the truth and if found guilty be remorseful of the crime; of course one must appear for this to occur. Mlle. Paris Hilton was recently sentenced to forty-five days in jail on a repeat misdemeanor traffic-related charge. Essentially Paris received fifteen days per charge; five to ten days could be expected but for the ad valom. . . a little extra time for being late to court, a little extra time for lying to the judge, a little extra time for mom being disrepectful of the judge . . . Miss Hilton did herself no favors in court that day.
WE HAVE A SUGGESTION . . . Mrs. King needs to get off the Dead Presidents Bandwagon and brush up on Virginia colonial history. Colonial Love and Marriage: For most of our colonial ancestors, marriage was a partnership in which both labored long and hard. Some 17th-century laws protected husbands — from wives who acquired debts, waged attacks, or committed adultery* (a crime against both the husband and the community). Husbands had to support and cohabit with their wives. Deserters were hounded and errant husbands hauled into court for adultery or for failing to provide. In Virginia, a 1662 statute provided ducking as a penalty for “brabling (sic) women (who) often slander* and scandalize their neighbors.
* Search CODE OF VIRGINIA using search words "adultery" and "slander" if links have timed out.
Sex-related crimes such as adultery were highly feared in colonial society because of the consequences they could render to that society and the family.* Consequences pertaining to adultery differed vastly between the Chesapeake and New England regions. Maryland and Virginia thought of the offense as primarily a behavior problem and left the punishment to the discretion of the judges.** Lying was also a crime in colonial America that was punishable with a variety of penalties. Punishments included abomination, typically consisting of wearing signs signaling they were liars, confinement in the stocks, and tortures such as having a cleft stick clamped to the tongue.*** OUCH!
*Bradley Chapin, Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983),p.126.
**John Demos, A Little Commonwealth, Family Life in Plymouth Colony (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p.96.
***Bradley Chapin, Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983),pp.138-39.
Strangely, this couple lived only a few blocks from each other in separate homes. Mrs. King, a married woman, openly conducted her affair with the gentleman, a married man, with her husband living a few blocks down the highway in full glare of her teenaged son. The story told was that Mr. King owned the house in which Mrs. King lived and charged her rent. It is true that on April 25, 2001, Mrs. King granted her interest in the home to Mr. King. It is also true that on December 5, 2002 a Deed of Trust was recorded in Albemarle County, Deed Book 2331, pages 553-571, wherein Richard C. King is declared unmarried (or homme sole) refinancing the home Mrs. King was living in separate from Mr. King with an Occupancy Clause stating: Borrower shall occupy, and shall only use, the Property as Borrower's second home. Borrower shall keep the Property available for borrower's exclusive use and enjoyment at all times, and shall not subject the property to any timesharing or other ownership arrangement or to any rental pool or agreement that requires borrower either to rent the Property or give a management firm or any other person any control over the occupancy or use of the property. Finally, on March 24, 2003 a Certificate of Satisfaction was recorded in Albemarle County; the refinance loan was paid and the property went back to Richard C. King and Andrée Madec King. SCAM ALERT!.
FRAUD: As a result of these lies the gentleman unknown to his wife took out unsecured loans amounting to $10,000 and an equity loan in the amount of $25,000 to assist the penniless Madame which had to be repaid from marital funds. Financial records show that in the Spring of 2005 checks written by the gentleman totaled approximately $6,500: April 15th, $200 made to "Andrée King"; April 20th, $2,276.28 to a local travel agent for the tickets to France; June 17th, $4,000 made to "Andrée King;" with the notation "France." We think the $45.00 check made to "Alliance Française" for membership dues takes the cake. The Madame leaves no stone unturned when it comes to CASH.
In the words of Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and Rutgers Head Coach C. Vivian Stringer during an April 10, 2007 press conference regarding racial comments made by a radio shock jock ". . . THE COLOR IS GREEN."
August, 2005 . . . The CASH flow has discontinued and the gentleman is through with the Madame and to his credit he tried reasoning with her by phone and in person over a period of two weeks. To no avail, MADAME IS NOT FINISHED. A barrage of letters written by hand from Mrs. King to the gentleman were received post-dump. The importance of the letters is that we get a window into Madame's technique. We will not publish all of the letters as they are long and repetitive.
"FOR ABOVE ALL THINGS LOVE MEANS SWEETNESS, AND TRUTH, AND MEASURE; YEA, LOYALTY TO THE LOVED ONE AND TO YOUR WORD." Marie de France
LIBEL: August 13th postmark: Hope you don't mind this inside psychology! You called me and it was great to be able to talk to you. I am so devastated, and I have a hard time believing that what happened is real. I have such a weight on my heart and I feel so miserable because I think I've been dropped and betrayed, especially so suddenly - It is so hard because, over those past four years, you became the essence of my life. Paragraph. You were telling me, too, that the only exciting times of your life were when we were seeing each other, that I was the only one to bring you comfort and happiness - I was trusting you and your love for me. Paragraph. I think that you still love me but you were scared to tell your wife that you were coming to France although once in May you tried to tell her that you wanted a divorce but she wouldn't hear. Paragraph. Why weren't you strong? I love you as you are, but I still wish you could have made the right decision for us. You might have been afraid to meet my family, but they were looking forward to meet you so much, because I told them that you were the only one who helped me these past years. I am so grateful and I love you so much for that. Paragraph. You say you want to put your life back together. I thought I was your life (Mrs. King's emphasis) and you were needing to separate from your wife who, from I see, outside, doesn't really bring you any happiness. Paragraph. How are you going to patch with her after being estranged from more than four years? Also, I don't think that you have the right ingredients: (Mrs. King's emphasis) You and her are very different in a sense that she is negative, somber, criticizing your family and friends, and having problems with people in general. She is not making you happy (does she?) She is not helping you with your health or career. Even if you care for her you should think about you first and what helps you or who helps you most in life, because you've helped her already and she always seems dissatisfied. As you said we come to a mature age and we should look for a happy, balanced life. I thought I could offer and I offered all that to you and I am completely heart-broken. I loved you with all my heart and passion as you know, tried to understand the ins and outs of our situation, and I really thought you would take the right decision for us. Paragraph. I wish you have the courage to follow your heart and come back to me (Mrs. King's emphasis) in spite of your wife's manipulations . . . I am still in aftershock and in pain, and I have to take a pill to numb my pain - so I sleep a lot. It is so hard; my house is still full of you. XOXO A verse in a modern rendering of the Book of Job, Sarah replies: "I loved you. I couldn't help you anymore. You wanted justice and there was none, only love."
LIBEL: August 26th postmark: My darling pet, Please call me wherever you are. I understand that you might need some time by yourself, but I am completely crushed not to see you. I don't want to complain too much because you have enough complaints and grievances on the other side, and I want to remain the positive, warm and affectionate side of your life. It is a very tiring job, though, to always try to bring (you) up to happiness and strong positive feelings while another person brings you down with complaining and grievances, making you as sad and miserable as she is . . . This is not the end of anybody's life, it will be the beginning of a better, happier life by wanting not to sulk over the past, and feeling guilty about the person you leave. Because, in fact, it was why you were staying with her, too, because of guilt and pity, all these negatives skillfully presented to you . . . As for me you make a big difference in my life, in a way that you make me happy, because our love is not a manipulation of guilt and pity. (Mrs. King's emphasis) My heart is sliced not to see you. I miss you terribly, and I am looking forward to see you again, very soon. XOXO Andrée
IN DENIAL: August 27th postmark: 1st night. All night, the windows were open, and my eyes, too - My ears, my senses were attentive. I was listening to every noise outside, the dogs barking, the cracking of branches, the crackling noises of the house, imagining that I was hearing your footsteps climbing up my wooden stairs. Then, later, I imagined three small knocks on the back door, and I got up, but you weren't there. I was guessing which car, slowing down, would stop in front of the house. I got up early waiting for you to call all day long. I hope that you are well. Love, Andrée. 2nd night. It is raining. I finally went to sleep after the past sleepless nights. I woke up at 4:00 am and now I am writing to you which is a way to feel you close by. I imagine you looking at me with your eyes full of love. Please, come home soon.
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), The Maltese Falcon (1941)
"HEAVEN HAS NO RAGE LIKE LOVE TO HATRED TURNED, NOR HELL A FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED." William Congreve
September, 2005: The trip to Besançon is a failure, the letters have gone unanswered but MADAME IS NOT FINISHED. Madame for the next year entered into literally a campaign of harassment, ultimately turning on the gentleman and enlisting one of the gentleman's oldest friends, sponsoring him in his professional activities. Mrs. King also paid visits to other friends of the gentleman, wining and dining them, in her efforts to get to the gentleman. According to one friend (another landed gentleman), Madame showed up at his house unannounced and allegedly made physical, sexual moves on him which he found disgusting especially since he had been involved with another French woman who he intended to marry for years, a fact of which Madame most assuredly was aware. Mrs. King stooped to paying a visit to the gentleman's attorney seeking the name of a divorce lawyer so that Madame could obtain the divorce for the gentleman. The gentleman's lawyer advised Mrs. King that she had no legal standing in such a matter as she was an adulteress and family wrecker. According to the attorney, Madame King "stood over my desk and told me not to interfere." As we mentioned, Mrs. King enlisted a very old friend in her efforts to involve the gentleman "professionally" in the Alliance Française 2006 Jumelage festivities. When all else failed Madame King turned on the gentleman; she had already besmirched his reputation by telling her associates in Besançon and Charlottesville that the gentleman did not go to France in 2005 because he was unreliable and unprofessional. Mrs. King demanded that the gentleman must take full responsibility and apologize to the Besançon contingent, which he did, or there could be an "international incident."
July, 2006: The following are excerpts from a letter sent to the gentleman from the above-mentioned friend dated July 25th. "My abortive efforts to get you involved in the French Jack Jouett/Yorktown program had complications I could not have anticipated and did neither of us any good. I'm sorry about that. The program itself has been only marginally successful." Most damaging, "...I would not have planned this assault on your business for the world . . . it fell into my lap and I took it." Poor sap; too little, too late and another relationship destroyed.
In closing we have one further statement: BEWARE MRS. JAQUELINE GUPTON of what may fall into Mr. Gupton's lap.
"HOW INEXPRESSIBLE IS THE MEANNESS OF BEING A HYPOCRITE! HOW HORRIBLE IS IT TO BE A MISCHIEVOUS AND MALIGNANT HYPOCRITE." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Madame seems to have overlooked the fact that the gentleman spoke his love and loyalty many years previous to her becoming the gentleman's mistress to his wife, before their congregation, under God. Madame King's words regarding trust, love, commitment and family would be highly pathetic and amusing if they had not caused so much damage. The mistress's quoting the Book of Job as well as professing a broken or "sliced" heart seem particularly ludicrous. Madame has verbally published her theories regarding the gentlewoman publicly, taking the trite "my wife does not understand me" to an unthinkable degree and the gentlewoman has suffered greatly both personally and professionally as a result of Mrs. King's long-term, widespread use of social weapons and psychological warfare. Mrs. King's clique is complicit in Madame's endeavors, supporting activitites that by any definition are unacceptable not to mention illegal.
"She would turn you out if you wasn't prepared
She would tell you the things you wanted to hear
She would blur your vision when it once was clear
This chick is full of tricks so approach with fear"
BREAKING NEWS ~ APRIL, 2007
"Webster" Chip Howell opened the blog CHARLOTTESVILLE JUMELAGE on the L'ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE web site, Tuesday, January 03, 2006. Under the byline Community-to Community Nat Howell posted the following statement: "Among the goals of Alliance Française of Charlottesville is to offer opportunities for participation of the citizens of the Charlottesville and Besançon regions in the sister city relationship." The sole comment posted until this month was: " 'Puzzled in Pasadena' wrote . . . So, is it true that Jerry Lewis is worshipped as a god in France?" This month a second comment was posted: " 'S.C. Garland' wrote . . . I am so dissapointed (sic) to know that you are a sister city to Bensancon (sic). My daughter is there, visiting from Staunton, and she is experiencing a great deal of prejudice and male disrespect. She is not being treated fairly at all. She had to walk out of a restaurant the other day because they refused to feed her. Charlottesville needs to pick her sisters a little better than that." Soon thereafter our web monitor/master posted a third comment: " 'DALLIANCE' wrote . . . You will be more disappointed to know how local French representatives of the Jumelage efforts treat Charlottesville gentlewomen and men . . . check out www.charlottesville-besancon.com/dalliancefrancaise.html for the low-down, and I do mean low down."
We are not indicting all the good gentlemen of Besançon. Every Ville has its bad apples. One person's post is just that, one person's individual experience and/or opinion. We have thus far showcased incredible people and activities in Besançon. Our point is "SO MUCH FOR PARTICIPATION OF THE CITIZENS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE AND BESANÇON REGIONS IN THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIP." We certainly understand why the Alliance Française would not want a link to our site on its blog. However, the "Webster" could easily have deleted our post. Deleting the post from S.C. Garland's is blatant censorship; the post contained content neither unlawful, abusive, indecent or obscene or that promotes violence or illegal acts nor content libelous, defamatory, scandalous or inflammatory, all blog taboos, warranting its removal. The comment was simply negative. Blogging is meant to be a forum for the free expression of ideas.
IT GETS DIRTIER . . .
We have located on BESAC.com, a site independent from the official Besançon site, the March 31, 2006 Salon de l'érotisme where it is written "the residents and natives are 'rabbits in heat' as suspected for a long time and judging by the multitude of participants." (Loosely translated) According to France for Young People "Le salon de l'érotisme peut cacher une réalité sordide . . ." France-Jeunes.net also states a majority of the girls who take part in the salons are professionals but unscrupulous producers recruit girls not only for photographs but for the infamous "casting couch." An interview ensues which chronicles a disturbing story from a young woman "victime" detailing her humiliating experience in the Nice Salon de l'érotisme with a pornography producer, who required that she "prove my talents" to him. During this annual three-day fête participants can purchase pornography and sado-machochist sex garb and toys, dance nude or scantily clothed, and engage in public sex acts. The second annual Salon de l'érotisme took place on February 10, 2007, and apparently was a raging success with more than 100 exhibitors and approximately 30,000 to 50,000 visitors. Considering the 2005 population estimate of Besançon proper was 115,400, that is statistically an astounding number of pervertir femmes et hommes roaming the streets of Charlottesville's fair Sister City.
Charlottesville's Dogwood Festival Parade pales in comparison with its Belly Dance Marketplace members dancing down Market Street, tummies and toes exposed, or its VIRGINIA MAJESTIC MAJORETTES (scroll down the link page) allowing the sun to shine on their little legs. Besançon, unfortunately, beats Charlottesville's derrière this time. Surely S.C. Garland's daughter ran up against the sort of men who would take part in the above-reported activities, not the good men of Besançon. No doubt, many of the good people of Besançon board up their houses and visit relatives in the country during this three-day débâcle of débauche. WHAT A SHAME.
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"IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH BECOMES A REVOLUTIONARY ACT." George Orwell
STAFF at Charlottesville-Besançon.com is a cadre of home-grown citizens comprised of an investigative journalist, corporate researcher, punk artist, paralegal and web developer who are weary of exploiters in their Villes. The Staff has meticulously fact-checked, cited, and provided external links in support of the TRUTH of these matters. The Staff has in its possession the original letters of Madame King and original checks made payable to Madame King. All other documents referred to such as recorded deeds of trust, chancery records, and tax records are public information and were accessed on the internet and in the Albemarle County Clerk's Office.
IDEAL FOR CHILDREN! The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet and operates under the umbrella of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). We self-rated this entire site as a result of a link to pornographic referrer links on MonticelloAvenue.org discovered while researching L'ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE 2005 usage statistics for dates crucial to our timeline. Oddly, A TIMELINE EXISTS. In the words of our fave FOX News anchorman Shepard Smith "We report, you decide." JUNE: all is well, referrer links normal; JULY: Referrer links for drugs (ambien, hydrocodone), bank/mortgage loans, and sex (minimal); AUGUST: The referrer link LESBIAN-MOVIES.SYTES.NET/*f*i*l*t*h* represents twenty-six of thirty top referrer links; SEPTEMBER: the same pornographic link and others relating to incest represent twenty-eight of thirty top referrer links; OCTOBER: pornographic referrer links diminish monthy to two or three regarding incest including mom-son sex and by FEBRUARY 2006 have completely disappeared forever. IDEAL FOR CHILDREN!
UPDATE: May, 2007; the referrer links in question are being denied permission . . . it's about time. We have hard copies of these pages in our files.
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