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OlivierD
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 4:00 am: |       |
I've sent my registration yesterday, and since I have posted several comments for some days, I thought I had to go ahead and introduce myself. I do not exactly if I am Belgian (where I am born), French (where I have studied) or Quebecker (where I am working now). One point is certain, however, my first language in not English. I hope you will be indulgent for my grammatical mistakes.
I have turned to the study of JtheR with the book of Patricia Cornwell. However, I must reassure you: I am not convinced by the validity of Sickert as a suspect. From this point of view, however, the work of Patricia Cornwell has been useful.
I hope to be with you in the future months (or years).
Olivier |
Glenn L Andersson
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Glenna
Post Number: 2066
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 8:31 pm: | |
Welcome to the Boards, Olivier.
As we've "met" already, I can tell there are going to be some interesting discussions.
All the best
Glenn Gustaf Lauritz Andersson
Crime historian, Sweden |
Ken Proctor
Sergeant
Username: Gizmo
Post Number: 34
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 1:15 am: | |
Hi Olivier Welcome to the site. do not be apologetic to the fact that you have investigated the works of Patricia Cornwell. she like all of us is fishing in the dark. i also am relatively new to this jtr thing and am yet too much of a novice to discount anything.It takes some time to being accepted on this site so hang in there. WELCOME |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1100
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 7:50 am: | |
Hi Olivier!!!!!! welcomes you too!!!!
You'll soon get the hang of the way all this works....think of it as the best pub in the world where the best conversation can be had but people aren't averse to playing games!...Eventually everyone forgives everyone else though.....generally!
Welcome!!!
Cheers
Suzi |
Glenn L Andersson
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Glenna
Post Number: 2070
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 8:00 am: | |
"think of it as the best pub in the world where the best conversation can be had but people aren't averse to playing games!"
A good suggestion, Suzi.
But where is the Guinness?
All the best
Glenn Gustaf Lauritz Andersson
Crime historian, Sweden |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1103
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 9:48 am: | |
Hi Glenn!
The Guinness is there NATURALLY!.....otherwise how could we possibly have anything resembling a
good conversation...mind you after a while conversation of any kind becomes a tad 'tricky'!
Heres to a good 'craich'!
Cheers
Suzi |
Olivier P.M.G. Donni
Police Constable
Username: Olivier
Post Number: 1
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 4:38 am: | |
Thank you all. I have received my password a couple of days ago. I hope to enter new discussions when I will have more time.
Olivier |
Jennifer D. Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 1017
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 9:54 am: | |
Hi Oliver,
Welcome
Jenni
damn the five word rule!!
"Think things, not words." - O.W. Holmes jr |
Christopher T George
Chief Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 913
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 1:08 pm: | |
Hi, Olivier
Let me join in warmly welcoming you to the boards. In addition to being a Ripperologist I am a War of 1812 historian, and deal extensively with my peers in Canada. At one of our War of 1812 symposiums, several years ago, Luc Lepin from Montreal spoke about the French-speaking volunteers who fought for the British during the war. At the upcoming October 9, symposium, Major John Grodzinski from Kingston, Ontario, will be speaking about the war on the St. Lawrence. But all this is off topic for this site, so let me reiterate my welcome and say that I am pleased that Pat Cornwell led you to us although you don't endorse her theory. I originally got involved through the Maybrick Diary, not that I believe in that either, since I hail from Liverpool though now live in the United States.
All my best
Chris George
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1366
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 4:35 pm: | |
Hi Olivier!!!!
Hope youre still with us!!!
Chris
My husband is a serious Napoleonic wargamer and got a tad excited re 1812 but is still interested in the Canadian aspect, any info or websites would appease!!
Cheers!!! Suzi |
Christopher T George
Chief Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 962
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 3:20 pm: | |
Hi, Suzi
Glad to know about your husband's Napoleonic Wars interests. It's a fascinating era. You both might be interested in an article of mine, "The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's 'Hero'?" that appeared originally in the Journal of Napoleonic Scholarship and can be read on the net.
All the best
Chris
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1379
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 5:41 pm: | |
Hi Chris!
Have saved the page looks very interesting will print out and place in front of husband tomorrow!!!!!
Thanks
Suzi |
Diana
Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 331
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 3:19 pm: | |
Hi, Olivier, Its great to have someone who speaks French on the boards because Mary Kelly, the last victim had a French connection. She claimed to have spent time in France and even started calling herself Marie Jeannette. This time in her life is largely a blank. Not confirmed. If you still have contacts in France your contribution could be extremely valuable. |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1387
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 5:05 pm: | |
Olivier
just thought that this quote may be a bit aposite here!
'Trois heures,cest toujours trop tard or trop to^t pour tout ce qu'on veut faire!!!'
For us... Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do'
Jean Paul Sartre |
Olivier P.M.G. Donni
Police Constable
Username: Olivier
Post Number: 2
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 04, 2004 - 10:44 am: | |
Thank you Suzi. I didn't know this line of Sartre.
To answer to your first remark. I must say, however, that I do not know specially the circle of French prostitutes in the XIXth Century. :-) But I can help you for translations, for example.
Still I am very busy now. In fact, I am again moving in France and I have lost my internet connection at home. It is why I have taken so much time to give you an answer.
Thank you Chris for your references to the War of 1812. This piece of History is very interesting. In France & Belgium, this war is almost unknown. Of course, we are "taken" by Napoleon Warsand in 1870 by the war against Germany.
Thank you Jenni for your kind (even short) words.
Olivier |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1412
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 5:47 pm: | |
Hi Olivier
As to the Satre!!! I didn't either! found it in the Oxford Book of Quotations!...as you do!
The Napoleonic Wars are very big business over here across the Channel... in wargaming terms of course!
Hope your move went well and hope to see you back on the boards soon! en avant!!!!!
Suzi
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