Tour de France revamped for 2008

With cycling in crisis, course changed to be speedier

Posted: Thursday October 25, 2007 11:25AM; Updated: Thursday October 25, 2007 11:25AM

 

 

PARIS (AP) -- The Tour de France will have revamped rules and a slightly less mountainous but hopefully more exciting course in 2008, organizers announced on Thursday, looking to inject fresh enthusiasm into cycling's doping-battered showcase race.

After the drug problems of the past two Tours, riders will cross a geographical high in 2008, scaling Europe's highest mountain pass _ the 9,193-foot Col de la Bonette-Restefond. Last climbed by the Tour in 1993, it is one of 19 major mountain passes that riders will face, two fewer than in this year's race.

 

Hi all cousins out there. My Louisiana and Alabama (formerly LA) cousins and I went to L'Ubaye in October. I have been captivated by this area, it's people and it's history. I am planning on gathering it all into a book, computer generated not published in the old fashioned way. But Francoise Bovo had been busy digging into our ancestry and the oldest name she has found takes us into the 15 hundreds and adds many names to the ancestral pool including several more Jauberts and Italian ancestry as well. She sent it to me. I put it into the form you will find here and cross checked and corrected with her several times to make sure of accuracy. 

The thing I find most fascinating about the area is the history back to the beginning of human inhabitants in an are with little in and out except for defined populations. I plan to compile some historical background and again check with Francoise for accuracy. I am on the trail of publications on the valleys of the French Alps and their culture and there are historical events in the valley that our ancestors, who ever they were lived through.

In my searching I found out the Tour de France will be riding into Jausiers over the Col de la Bonette-Restefond on July 22nd. That means it will come into Jausiers right in front of the place we stayed.

I am posting these genealogy charts in PDF form. If you want it in word just email me and I will pass it on. One in particular you may want to change to fit your side of the family and even the others you may want to add to later and I might not be around.

Amitie,

Maxine

A lovely story

Another occurrence was not so strange as it was charmingly romantic. A young man in the employ of Robert Todd Lincoln’s law firm left Illinois for New Orleans to investigate a piano company that was not performing up to par. His name was John Virgil Dugan and he immediately went to work to see why the company was having financial difficulties. But his visit to this new an exciting city was not all work and no play, for he received an invitation to his first New Orleans Carnival Ball. And it was there that he first set eyes on the young and beautiful Laure Jaubert. After meeting her he knew that his life would be changed forever.Mr. Fortuné A. Jaubert was born in 1846 in Barcelonnette, France, a town surrounded by snow-covered mountains in the Alps of Haute Provence. As the father of John Dugan’s love interest, he was visited by the enamored suitor at his place of business, Jaubert Brothers Dry Goods on Magazine Street. Dugan introduced himself and politely asked Mr. Jaubert if he could have his permission to court his daughter, Laure.Mr. Jaubert replied, “Mais non. Quite impossible! Why, Monsieur Dugan, you don’t even speak French.”The Gaelic-Gallic impasse had young Dugan at first dejected but later empowered once he envisioned the solution. He signed up for French lessons and after three months revisited Magazine Street. This time the greeting was “Bon jour, Monsieur Jaubert.” This salutation was followed by an adequate conversation in French such that the previously reluctant father gladly relented and agreed to a proper courtship. John and Laure were married and Dugan informed the Lincoln law firm that he should stay in New Orleans and run the piano company. All lived happily ever after, at least until 1916.On September 14th of that year, a crazed streetcar passenger, Seymour Clay, ran amuck slashing the conductor three times with a knife. It started with a dispute over a transfer in a Napoleon Avenue car at Dryades. Clay jumped from the car and ran to his house to procure a loaded Winchester rifle with which he shot and wounded four people. Another person was even less fortunate. Fortuné Jaubert was riding in his automobile with his wife, daughter (Mrs. Albert Clerc) and granddaughter, Noelie Clerc. While proceeding up St. Charles Avenue a high caliber bullet from Clay’s rifle entered Mr. Jaubert’s breast as he crossed Valmont Street. Seated in the tonneau of his vehicle, he slumped forward against the driver’s seat. His family hastened to Hotel Dieu, but Mr. Jaubert was dead when they lifted him from the car. He was 69 years old. Due to senseless violence a prominent citizen was gone, a man who gave a younger man a second chance at true love. “Merci, Monsieur Jaubert.”NED HÉMARD
New Orleans Nostalgia"Lincoln Law and Loving Laure" Copyright 2006

JAUBERT FAMILY

Attention,il y a plusieurs famille JAUBERT dans la vallée de l'Ubaye.Antoine JAUBERT ne fait pas parti de la famille JAUBERT des Saniéres (Briançon).
La votre est originaire d'un village appelé UVERNET aux pieds du Col d'Allos.
Trois familles existent ,mais nous n'avons pas encore pu les relier entre elles
Françoise

Jaubert house in Jausiers

Here is one of the villas in Jausiers built by a Jaubert. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/paca/dossiers/ubaye/villas/monog/charmett/charmett.htm
Charles

Lisa-Clerc Rosenberg in Jausiers

My mother Lisa-Clerc Rosenberg (nee Clerc Minette Stokes)(great grand-daughter of Marius Jaubert) visiting Jausiers in the early 1970s.

Charles Rosenberg

Fortune Jaubert article in NO Bee

I ran across an article on the shooting of Fortune Jaubert in the New Orleans Bee (New Orleans' French newspsper), Fri. Sept. 15, 1916. The article is in French and I could not get it to copy without losing a lot of resolution. So. I saved the link and will post it here.

http://nobee.jefferson.lib.la.us/Vol-170/09_1916/1916_09_0062.pdf

I also found Fortune Jaubert's obit in the same paper (that Saturday)

Jaubert family house at Les Sannières

Thanks for all the posts so far. I think this will serve as a very efficient way to share our information in a way that will be very easy to recall as needed. Also, with summer starting this weekend, who's still interested in having a reunion? Please hit the comments link directly below this post to let me know if you are. All the best.