Living

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living

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Occupation: 1930, Lecturer in French, University of Sydney, Australia.

Residence: 1943, Freidorf, Switzerland.

A record of his various activities in Switzerland, e.g.: notice biographique dans le Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français (Maitron): "En 1933, il revint en Suisse, où l'USC lui confia la réaction de la presse coopérative sous la direction du Dr. Henry Faucherre à la charge duquel il succéda en 1945-1946 en qualité de membre de la direction de l'USC, chef du Département presse., éducation et propagande."

June 1970, honorary degree, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Education: Sorbonne, Paris

Charles married Gertrude-Micheline (Michel) Agelasto on 20 Mar 1929 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Gertrude-Micheline (daughter of Michel Demosthenes (Demosthenes) Agelasto and Gertrude Betty Adelheid Milde) was born on 12 Jan 1907 in rue Daguerre 92, Paris 14ème, Île-de-France, France; died on 23 May 1988 in Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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unknown to Argenti

The natural daughter of Michel Agelasto and Gertrude Mildé. After her father's death 1915, she and her mother were forced to leave France for Geneva due to her mother's German nationality. WW I had interrupted Michel's plans to marry Gertrude; after his death his friend Paul Rodocanachi arranged a sort of annuity, approved by French President Raymond Poincaré, a friend of Michel, who had authorized an exemption to permit their marriage. Michel Demosthene Agelasto's paternity is annotated on her birth certificate, 11 Aug 1914, and this was formally accepted by the mother, 26 Mar 1915, at the city hall, Monléon-Magnoac, Hautes-Pyrénées.

Her portrait was drawn by her art tutor, Henri Matisse, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris, late November or December 1914. Charcoal on paper 35 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.), signed l.r.: Henri-Matisse. Plate 30 in Portraits par Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse, ed., André Sauret, pub., Paris, 1954). Printing limited to 2,850 copies, numbered 1 to 2,850, of which 500 were printed in English, numbered 1,501 to 2,000. Printing of the English edition was completed 1 Feb 1955.

Residence: 81 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris; 1915- Geneva; -1929, Paris; 1930, Australia; 1944- Freidorf, Switzerland.

Education: Sorbonne, Paris.

She exhibited at the Lyceum Club, Sydney, Australia, 4 Apr 1930 (The Sydney Mail, 19 Mar 1930, p. 30).

Gertrude Barbier of Basil exhibited a watercolor "The Window" at the 38th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 7 Sep 1944, p. 6). She exhibited a 'portrait rapidly removed' at the 39th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 19 Sep 1946, p. 6).

Artist. Name is on artprice.com website, Dec 2009.

Birth:
She was born in the domicile of the mid-wife.

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Married:
The marriage of Gertrude M Agelasto and Charles H Barbier was registered in 1929, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia: registration no. 2567 (LDS microfilm).

Francis married Milka Frank. Milka was born on 16 Sep 1877 in [Switzerland]; died in 1942 in [Switzerland]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence, Paris: 1885 - 1886, 62 Boulevard de Clichy; 1897, 28 rue Jouffroy; 1912, avenue Malakoff 148, 16e (with his father).

One M. Agelasto was employed at 1 Place Centrale (1892-3) and at 9 rue de la Republic (1894), the latter being the same address as the office of his uncle, Demetrius Michel Agelasto (1884, the year before he died).

A photo of mother and infant, circa 1860 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in the collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris, is possibly Mrs. Demosthenes Agelasto née Arghyro Sechiari, and her son Michel.

On the Electoral Lists, Paris, France (1912)

Michel Agelasto, 28 rue Jouffroy, Paris, member of Société des études historiques, from 1894 (Revue de la Société des études historiques, Paris, 1897.

Attended sister’s wedding in 1885.

Birth:
Signatory witnesses on the birth certificate include Eustradio Petrocochino and Theophile Mettze, merchants.

Died:
Of fragile health, he fell and broke a leg. After an apparently successful operation, his injury did not heal correctly. During a subsequent operation, he died from a blood clot.

Buried:
Cemetery 1915 register midi carré 2, ter grec, no. 10.

Funeral at the Greek Church, Paris, 3 Mar 1915, 9:30 a.m.

Michel married Gertrude Betty Adelheid Milde. Gertrude was born on 20 Mar 1875 in Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, Russia; died on 24 Dec 1955 in Basel/Bale, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Occupation: artist

As a German citizen she was interred in a prisoner camp located in the Pyrenees. Michel Demosthene Agelasto's paternity is annotated on her daughter's birth certificate, 11 Aug 1914, and this was formally accepted by the mother, 26 Mar 1915, at the city hall, Monléon-Magnoac, Hautes-Pyrénées.

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M. Agelasto purchased at auction a work by the French painter Alfred Dehodencq (1822-1882): "140. — Christophe Colomb au couvent de la Rabida. — 1864. — Réduction du grand tableau. — H. 0.90, L. 0.60. — Acheté à la vente par M. Agelasto." Source: Gabriel Séailles, Alfred Dehodencq : l'homme et l'artiste (Société de propagation des livres d'art, Paris, 1910), digitized by the Internet Archive, 2011.

Died:
DOD according to death certificate.

Buried:
Cemetery 1912 register midi carré 2, ter grec, no. 10, line entry 196 s

Demosthenes married Arghyro (Georges) Sechiari on 08 Jan 1859 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Arghyro (daughter of Georges (Paraskeva) Sechiari and Marigo (Pandely) Rodocanachi) was born on 30 Oct 1837 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died on 28 Jun 1916 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The daughter of her elder brother, Paraskeva George Sechiari, was Marigo Sechiari whose husband was the grandson of Marietta Agelasto.

A photo of mother and infant, circa 1860-186 by Eugene Disderi in the collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris, is likely Mrs. Demosthenes Agelasto née Arghyro Sechiari, and her son Michel.

Name:
Name appears as Argentine on her son George's death certificate.

Died:
Funeral at the Greek Church, Paris, 2 Jul 1916, 10:30 a.m.

Notes:

Agelasto-Sechiari marriage alliance is depicted on a web of Greek marriage alliances, 1849-1876.

Married:
Witnesses included Michel Petrocochino, 65, merchant, allees de Meilhan 6; Demetrius Agelasto, 30, merchant, allees des Capucines 49; Etienne Sechiari, 48, merchant, allees des Capucines 10; Paul Rodocanachi, 46, merchant, allees des Capucines 12.