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Crusader quest cronette1/15/2023 ![]() Among them were respected members of the community: Guillemette, the matriarch, who was then 88 years old her son Philippe, a 63-year-old Shell Oil executive another son, Charles-Henri, 53, a gynecologist and local politician (and the husband of Christine) and her daughter, Ghislaine, 55, who ran a secretarial school in Paris. Gradually, 11 members of the family, spanning three generations, retreated into their ancestral home, a turreted manor called Château Martel, near the 13th-century village of Monflanquin, in southwestern France. In late 2001, some of the de Védrines began to abandon the long-established routines of their lives. Her captivity and torture, which is alleged to have occurred in January 2008, would prove to be a decisive moment in the collapse of the French aristocratic house of de Védrines, many of whose members over a period of several years had achieved a significant disconnection from what is commonly referred to as reality. The tale sounds like the invention of a Dan Brown, but it is the truth, according to the testimony of Christine de Védrines, as summarized by her lawyer and related by a confidant. ![]()
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