Monday, June 16, 2008

Beat The Wall Without Sound

Dear Senator J0SS0T (1859 / 1941) PAUL



picture taken with his fellow professors at L.ycée Hippolyte Fontaine in Dijon in 1904.

Mayor Crimolois from 1904 to 1919
President of the General Council from 1913 to 1919 Senator of
Gold Coast from 1919 to 1941

Pierre Denis Jossot Crimolois was born in April 4, 1859, at 7 rue Saint Honore, in a modest family, where he had a very hard childhood. His father was traveling grocer, Peter had to deal with his sister Margaret of four years her junior, her paralyzed mother, so after primary school, he continued his studies alone. Although autodidact he taught school in Dijon in 1889 and 1890, then taught as a professor at the Ecole Normale d'Aix-en-Provence. In 1904, appointed professor of chemistry at the school practice Dijon (now the Lycée Hippolyte Fontaine) Crimolois he returned to settle in, he was the mayor of May 15, 1904 to December 10, 1919, when he entered the Senate. Meanwhile, he was president of the General Council of the Gold Coast for 6 years, where the extent of his means, he helped many of his countrymen during the Great War.

In 1919 he was elected senator for the Gold Coast on the list of the "National Bloc" and left the town hall Crimolois. In the Senate, standing in the party "Democratic Left", Chairman of the Education Commission, his greatest desire was to give the same school all French. Also do we find with the "Delegation of the Left", where he participated in 1905, under the Combes ministry, the draft law on the separation of church and state.

still very simple and available to all: for instance, said "I get in my woods," that is to say, bare feet in his shoes. Many people were owed Crimolois him, always staying in touch and service of all. Original

until the end of his life, he married for the first time in almost 80 years, and he was convinced anticlerical and Freemason, was united with Margaret Belin (20 years his junior) October 26, 1938 in Notre Dame de Paris by Cardinal Verdier himself.

At the end of 1940 the Germans did published a list of people who should be shot, where he appeared as a Freemason. He decided to spend in the free zone, and it reaches us that Dax's last letter, dated January 11, 1941, where he spoke of the death of his wife.

In 1990, Mr. Herbin, then mayor of Crimolois, sent an inquiry for Mayor of Dax who replies: " no act is registered under this name between 1933 and 1952. We knew then neither the date nor place of his death. But in November 2000, the archives of the Senate tell us that they have a letter from the Deputy Mayor of Dax, Senator Trunks-Lacroix, who informed the Senate President, Mr. Dupin's death on May 1, 1941 Mr Jossot to be buried at Dax (letter dated May 2, 1941).

archives also have a photocopy of the letter from Miss Margaret Jossot, his sister, dated July 31, 1941, by which the complainant requests the Director of Railways, for permission to cross the line demarcation to go to Dax settle the estate of his brother.

Finally, it is clear that Mr. Pierre Denis Jossot had not voted installing the Vichy government.

During the war of 14-18, Mr Jossot, then mayor of Crimolois opposed with great authority and dignity to the requisitioning of donkeys and mules were the only means of traction and transport of vegetable the village. There were no large farms, each with its small fields and gardens, vineyards, meadows and orchards
) Residents living near-autarky
They were going to sell rabbits, poultry, eggs, some fruits and vegetables
Even the flowers at the market in Dijon
Without their animals they lost their working tools
Mr Jossot managed to avoid that. With humor he caused even the enemy
Example One German soldier asked him to eat, he returns with a bucket of water and
Haystack to the astonishment of Uhlan he said (in France it is the Food asses with a big smile) I
many other stories told by his friend Mr Nightingale
but the tape was erased by mistake. Too bad because these little phrases reflect the character and goodness of Mr.
Jossot
He helped his constituents as he could, made them go into
Administrations (there was no competition a good enough recommendation)
A young war orphan Dad has with him his military service in Longvic and thus continued to help his family farm receiving extended permissions
He tried to convince parents of gifted children to let them continue their studies and asked them for scholarships. Two arms was less for the work
From the Earth, but can be a researcher or a great doctor for the good of humanity

During the 39-45 war he was wanted by the Germans to be shot as
Freemason but he has taken refuge in Dax, where he died in 1941 without found. by the enemy

That's part of the life of Mr. Jossot, a simple man, helpful, who defended until the end of his life he believed ideas.

Do we not deserve more than a street named in his hometown ? Denise Voinet

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