Notice in La Justice of a performance of “‘La Conquête de Pierrot’, pantomime belliequeuse en un tableau, de M. Gaston Fortis, musique de M. Albert Drugbert.” The narrator in other scenes is a M. Sitrof, which is Fortis backwards.

Gaston Emile A. (aka Gaston Guillaume Guichot de aka Gaston Edouard Guichot de)) Fortis

Birth Name Fortis, Gaston Emile A. (aka Gaston Guillaume Guichot de aka Gaston Edouard Guichot de))
Gramps ID I1351
Gender male
Age at Death between 60 years, 1 day and 62 years

Narrative

Name given as Gaston Emile A. Fortis on marriage to Edmée Humetz, but Maurice says it was Gaston Edouard Guichot de Fortis on his birth certificate & that in London he was known as Gaston Fortis.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Occupation [E2125]     Journalist, playwright, dreamer. London correspondent for the right-wing Catholic daily, L'Univers, till perhaps 1909, when he goes back to France, perhaps because Edmée is ill, and writes for the far-right daily L'Action française & perhaps others. His "bellicose tableau" "La Conquête de Pierrot", with music by Albert Drugbert, was performed in February 1892.  
Birth [E2099] between 1860 and 1861 France Maurice says 1860, but gets his death date wrong. 1 2 3
Residence [E2102] 1901 Camberwell, Surrey Gaston Fortis journalist 40 & Edina Fortis 21. 2
Residence [E2126] 1905 146 Adelaide Road, Brockley, Lewisham, Kent   4
Residence [E2127] 1906 26 Chudleigh Road, Brockley, Lewisham, Kent   5
Residence [E2101] 1907 26 Chudleigh Road, Brockley, Lewisham, Kent Edmée presumably here too, but no vote... 6
Residence [E2124] 1912 Paris, France Presumably with Edmée when she died in Paris, and L'Univers says: "Gaston Fortis was our devoted correspondent in London, while he lived there" 7a
Death [E2100] 1922 Greenwich, Blackheath, Kent Reg. Q4. Age 61. Maurice says he died in 1920.  

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Edouard-Marie Guichot de Fortis [I1454]
         Gaston Emile A. (aka Gaston Guillaume Guichot de aka Gaston Edouard Guichot de)) Fortis between 1860 and 1861 1922

Families

Family of Gaston Emile A. (aka Gaston Guillaume Guichot de aka Gaston Edouard Guichot de)) Fortis and Edmée Jeanne A. L. (aka Edina) Humetz [F0460]
Married Wife Edmée Jeanne A. L. (aka Edina) Humetz [I1350] ( * between 1879 and 1880 + 1/1912 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage [E2093] 1897 Westminster, London Reg. Q1 Westminster St. Margaret. Edmée was 16, says Jan, &, says L'Univers, left 8 young children when she died, though citing 8 rather than 6 might have been to attract more donations for Gaston. 8 9
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Edith Fortis [I1356]
Maurice Edward (aka Maurice Edouard A. C. Guichot de) Fortis [I1352]5/5/19012/7/1976
Lucienne Jeanne C. Fortis [I1353]19031963
Suzanne Claire Fortis [I1354]2/5/19051977
Jeanne Josephine Fortis [I1355]19/3/19071982

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