Helene Feige

Hélène Feige circa 1881/83

Thérèse and Hélène Feige, circa 1896

Helen in 1897

Helen in her living room, Neuilly?
to see the marble head of one of the twins on the cabinet; see also the Nap.III table that Francis inherited

about 1901 Ermont

V7113 - Helen around 1900

around 1903

around 1935

Hélène Cordelle, circa 1965 
in Saint Lawrence

 
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In 1912, Hélène Cordelle returned to France with her two children Jean, 14, and Suzanne, 10 years old. Louis was buried in Saint Denis in the Family grave of his parents on the Prouveur side.

After a short stay in Enghien with her parents-in-law CORDELLE, she was unable to find any resources, and organized herself into family reunion: her two children, her mother Léonie Feige, widowed since 1896, her sister Therese Bidel, widow also since 1909, with his two daughters Yvonne and Gillette Bidel and an old servant. They lived in the apartment of 2 rue Pierre Curie, 3 widows, 4 cousins and first cousins. Jean was at the Lycée Henri IV.
See 1913, a party in Enghien, page 3803 and one visit to the acclimatization garden and Luna Park in 1913 (page 3804)

The Great War They were spending a holiday, which is found in the photographs of Louis Cordelle's verascope and used by Jean from 1915. page 3805, various years 1915-1920  United Kingdom St-Quay in 1913-14 (page 3802), Coutainville page 384, and pages 3841 Villa Hermoso in 1915, 3842 tennis and fishing, Lessay in 1915, 3843 villa les Arroches in 1917, Veules-les-Roses in 1915-16 (page 385), and also in 1916 page 3851, and page 3852, and St-Quay in 1918, page 3853,
Helen then remembered the Hausermann, known when returning to France in 1910 and lost sight of them. Vierville (page 386) in 1917, where the children John and Simone ( 39) The first two were in the middle of the year. year 1917 Page 3861 , year 1919 in Vierville, page 3862, 1920-21 in Vierville, page 3863.

John was of fragile health, like his father, too thin, probably threatened with tuberculosis.École Polytechnique in 1917-19 (page 3860). He has made known to him who has become a faithful friend: Gabriel Dessus. After the war, John became civil engineer of the Bridges and Chaussées, married Simone Hausermann (page 388)And for his part, Gabriel Dessus, Marine Engineer, married Suzannette Cordelle (page 389) (they had no children and Suzannette, my godmother, died in her turn of tuberculosis in 1930, shortly after my birth). Suzanne was called Suzannette to avoid confusion with Simone's sister: Suzanne Hausermann/Chedal-Anglay. 

Gabriel (see map of 1931, Canada, page 3891) remarried with Colette Lemée, widow and mother of Nicole Lemée 1921 - 1976 (Nicole who married my older brother François Cordelle in 1944.

Helen's sister, Therese, having remarried with Pierre Dupuis in 1919 (see a visit by Jean and Simone to Bergerac in 1920, (page 387)She lived alone in Paris. She settled around 1932 at 6 avenue Dode de la Brunerie, near the door of Saint Cloud and kept close contact with her sister, who returned to Paris, moved to 2 avenue Dode, a short walk away, around 1936.

From 1937 until 1939, she hosted her two grandsons François and Michel Cordelle, aged 16 and 15, who were to continue their studies in France, their parents remaining in Argentina with me, who was much younger.
        
The "war funny" 1939 - 40 happened in Coutances, in a house on the Rue de Tourville, where all Cordelle and all Chedals gathered. The great ones followed the preparatory classes of the Lycée Janson folded in Coutances.
From September 1940, Helen (Bonne-Maman) returned to Dode Avenue, in her apartment which she gave up after the war to the young household Michel Cordelle and she then settled in a 2 rooms on 4 avenue Balfourier, from 1949 to 1968, an apartment purchased by Jean Cordelle and of which I later inherited.

90 years old, unable to live alone, she was a time at my parents' house, retired to the Brûlat du Castellet, then in a health home in Aubagne where she gradually died. at 93 years.

Here a postcard of Good Maman addressed to Mom, and her ID card (page 3801).

Good-Mama had a long and rather difficult life, but she was a cheerful, pleasant and endearing person. She saw the premature disappearance of many of her relatives:

his brother Henri, who died at the age of 18 from a heart disease, in 1889
his father Alexandre FEIGE, died at 57 years of age in 1896
his daughter Germaine, 2 years old, died of the croup (tuberculosis), in 1904
his brother-in-law Georges BIDEL, at 31 years old in a mine accident in 1909.
her husband Louis, at 39, also from the croup, in 1912
his second and last brother André, at 33 years old, died for France at the beginning of the Great War, in 1914
his second and last daughter Suzanne, at 28, in 1930, from the croup too.

Since her husband's disappearance, she has always lived very low pensions, helped by her son. And it was only the year of her death that she inherited a large sum, unexpectedly, when she obviously no longer needed it. (her family's legacy from behind) cousins Milson and Caille page 3806)