Michel Reig and Marie Bonnet

the house of the Reigs
to Port-Venders
Place Castellane

the Reig Funeral Monument
in Port-Vendres

Jacques REIG

Jean REIG

Greeting card from Mrs. Vassal, a cousin on the Rougier side, 4 January 48, addressed to the Rougier parents

death of Mrs. Charles Vassal, January 30, 1967

Michel REIG, Jr.

(details) at the wedding of Rougier-Maillet (1927) 
front, from g to d: René Bureau, Yvonne Thirion, Marcel Maillet, Denise VASSAL
Behind: Madeleine Vassal, Jeanne Maillet,
Madeleine and Denise are distant cousins of Maurice Rougier

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Memories of Claude, transmitted by his grandmother Pauline Reig-Rougier:
"From 17 years old (so that the line of blood can be perpetuated quickly after a deadly war), Michel REIGIn 1809, the eldest of the family, fatherless, was married to Marie BONNET (aged 26), and he inherited the fortune of his parents that he had to manage: Banyuls, Port Vendres, Colliours.

He became a shipowner, owner of a trading fleet, and he was in Algeria and South America. On the return of one of his trips, he was made to Paris, the great portrait that was in the show of Suzanne ROUGIER in Versailles (this portrait is now in Vierville), and that he bought Louis Philippe furniture. There are two more vases left in Versailles. (at the Bessons at present).

He owned a house with terrace (it is still there, became presbytery) which he left to be built in Port-Vendres, a large house on Castellane Square (a embankment built with the rubble of the works of the port). This house, carrying on the front of the door the acronym MR interlaced, later became the gendarmerie, until its sale around 1980. A cinema s On the central roof, a large bell, dedicated to St. Michel, was used to call staff to work in warehouses and attices (his boats, often sailed swings, were trading in grain). 
Every week he served soup for the poor in Port Vendres.
Half of Port Vendres belonged to the family and everyone had built a house there according to their tasteMichel, who had studied in Paris, had made a garden with mountains like in Versailles. Uncle Bellieu, who had travelled from greenhouses to tropical plants.
Napoleon III and the Empress returning from Algeria, forced to land in Port Vendres, were received by the REIG family. The next day he left with the car and the coachman (from REIG) received such a tip that he came back with the car full of furniture.
The Reig family tomb, surrounded by a gate in the old cemetery, is located at the end of the central driveway. The Reig d'Arles-sur-Tech still use it.

They are part of the landowners who share the territory. They are "au Reig", "au Sagols", "au Pi (or Py, or Piy)", "au" being a nobility. The Py de Sceaux (who were or rather were the instigators of the marriage between Suzanne Maillet and Maurice Rougier were descendants and were allied several times with the Reigs." See below:

Michel REIG had 5 children. Claude remembers his grandmother's stories: "And my grandmother's aunts and uncles, because all this people lived in clans. On his father's side, Jacques Reig, they were an aunt and three uncles:
            1 - Marie Reig, married to M.BELLIEU, who owned a house with greenhouse and tropical plants in Port Vendres.
Claude: "The aunt Marie married Henri Bellieu, a naval officer to whom she had given her resignation."

            2 - Jean Reig, married to Lucie DEPOT
Claude says: "Uncle Jean, who lived in Port Vendres ... his wife Lucie (Depot) was found intact (long after his death) "We cried out at the miracle (it would have been treated with arsenic).

            3 - Michel Reig Jr., married to Marie ARTHAUD, studied in Paris, owned a house with garden in the taste of Versailles. He was the grandfather of the VASSALs who Claude's parents knew well:

Claude: "Uncle Michel had studied in Paris and married a Parisian woman, Marie Arthaud. (Augustine) Vassal, banker in Perpignan, from there Charles was born.

It could be a portrait of Michel Reig Jr. The back of the photo mentions Michel Reig, it can't be Michel Reig Sr who died in 1856, when this kind of photos didn't exist yet

(details) Michel Reig's family ? people are not identified

This Charles was a beautiful cousin to my aunts Lucie and Louise at the Legion of Honor. He was Saint Cyrian, and Pauline, the mother of the young girls, had to give permission to the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor. We had protocol in this extraordinary house founded by Napoleon for the education of the young girls whose fathers had distinguished themselves in the battles.
Charles lived with a young girl (Madeleine Tournerie?) - the parents refused the marriage - who died giving birth to a Charlotte girl (in 1902). It (Charlotte Vassal) married an American (or a Romanian painter?) Peter Takal, from where Anne married Vorkopitch in 1958 in Yugoslavia, from which two boys Marco and Nino. (Charlotte Takal lived in New York in 1967).
Charles then married Madeleine Delagneg - whom I knew, (descendant of the Doria family of princes (Genese navigators) - He went to the garrison at Pamiers, resigned, went to the Fine Arts, died suddenly at 40 years of age, after having taken care of a broom and bellows industry and had taken care of literature (the Roussillon under Louis XIV, with military archives as sources).
Denise Vassal, older than me, who nostalgic about living alone, set herself in 1982 in Port-Vendres, the cradle of the family, and they say she married the man who cultivated her vineyards.
- and Pierre Vassal (born 1910), Married twice, (married to Renée Buse?, then Jeanne Arnaux?), died in 1952.
There was a cousin of Denise, of English origin, named after (Gabrielle) Vassal (she wrote books, we own a 1931, dedicated to Madame Cordelle in 1946, "French, Belgian and Portuguese in Equatorial Africa" signed by Gabrielle and Joseph Vassal) and who taught Yves Cordelle English in the 1940s. (They lived down Lamballe Avenue)"
Other evidence:
" Charlotte VASSAL married a Romanian Jewish painter; they left for the United States before the 1939 war, they had a daughter, (Anne Takal), very pretty, who had a beauty prize."

            4 - Bonaventure Reig, 1819 – 1887, heir to the naval estates and armament, married Claire Pi and had 10 children. His grandson Paul Reig bequeathed the mas Reig to the city of Banyuls.

Claude says: "Uncle Bonaventure, married to Claire Py, had 10 children. Among them :
- Theole was a religious - very cheerful, in Bordeaux - that's where Luce, Henriette's daughter, studied.
- only Josephine, wife of Parlier, had two children. Would it be her son Paul who would have given the family's mas Reig to the commune of Banyuls for 7 centuries, unless it was Uncle Paul, his uncle without children.
- Ernestine, not married, went several times to Jerusalem, Rome, Hungary, she was a traveler."

            5 - Jacques Reig, 1812 - ? , heir of the house of Castellane and father of Pauline REIG- I'm Claude's grandmother.