Title
Reims [Cellist Paul Totelier in the home of Me. Charbonnreaux and the Chatelin family]
Published
1944-1945
Full Collection Name
Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection circa 1850-circa 1955
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1982.111.06.0584--NNEG
Type
Image
Extent
1 negative : nitrate film
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
A Chatelin family member, in 2019, provided this recollection about these images (slightly paraphrased): "These photos were taken either in December 1944 or in June 1945 (as she [T. Bonney] came several times to our home), in my grandmother's (Me Charbonneaux's) house where all the Chatelin family lived. Our own house next door was occupied by US officers (after being occupied by the Germans.) As I spoke English fluently at that time I was very friendly with them. These photos show the French cellist Paul Totelier being watched eagerly by one of my sisters who studied the cello with him, my grandmother, an unknown young man standing, an English RAF Officer named Blackam, another RAF officer named Waters, my father, and in front my mother. The two RAF officers were at Eisenhower's headquaters. They both spoke several languages . I remember Waters playing the guitar and whistling beautifully."
