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 Les Essarts, Forbes family estate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Les Essarts is the Forbes family estate at Saint-Briac, France, and the international family seat of the descendants of James Grant Forbes (b.
He is the grandfather of two famous politicians, Brice Lalonde, a Green Party candidate for President of France in 1981, and John Forbes Kerry, a Democrat candidate for President of the United States of America.
Many of the Forbes family have socialized during summers spent in Brittany at Les Essarts.
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 John Kerry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Forbes Kerry is not related to billionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes and his son Steve Forbes — the latter of whom twice sought the Republican presidential nomination.
John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade.
Forbes magazine (a major business magazine named for an unrelated Forbes family) estimated that if elected, Kerry would be the third-richest U.S. President in history when adjusted for inflation [55].
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 Encyclopedia: Les Essarts, Forbes family estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Les Essarts, the Forbes family estate in Saint-Briac, Brittany, France File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
James Grant Forbes (October 22, 1879 - April 24, 1955) was an American businessman, a member of the Forbes family.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts.
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 John Kerry - Wikipedia
The family estate, known as Les Essarts, had been occupied and used as a Nazi headquarters during the war.
Kerry is wealthy in his own name, and is the beneficiary of at least four trusts inherited from Forbes family members, including his mother, who died in 2002.
Forbes magazine (a major business magazine named for an unrelated Forbes family) estimates that if elected, Kerry would be the third-richest U.S. President in history.
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 Upto11.net - Artist Profile for John Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A misconception some Americans have is that John Forbes Kerry is related to billionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes and his son Steve Forbes, the latter of whom twice sought the Republican presidential nomination.
Summers were spent at the Forbes family estate in France, and John enjoyed much greater extravagance there than he had come to know back in Massachusetts.
Forbes magazine (a major business magazine named for an unrelated Forbes family) estimated that if elected, Kerry would be the third-richest U.S. President in history when adjusted for inflation http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/13/cx_da_0213kerry.html.
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John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is a United States senator from the state of Massachusetts.
John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade, and became an international businessman and attorney living in France and England.
Her grandfather was Robert Charles Winthrop, the conservative Whig Speaker of the House and a senator, and her ancestors include James Bowdoin, former governor of Maine, and John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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 Forbes family - China-related Topics FM-FP - China-Related Topics
Later, some of the Forbes family sold their China trading interests to the Russell and Company, a shipping empire which was headed by Robert Bennett Forbes, and was later associated with Yale UniversityYale's development and endowment.
John KerryJohn Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and was a candidate for President of the U.S. Though he is a beneficiary of several Forbes family trusts (c.
However, Bertie Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, is a descendant of the Forbes Scottish clanclan in Scotland.
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 John Kerry - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born in the town of Horni Benesov, Austria-Hungary (in what is now the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic), and grew up in Mödling, Austria (a small town near Vienna).
In 1937, he met Rosemary Forbes, a member of the wealthy Forbes family.
One of eleven children, she studied to be a nurse, and served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II (she also was a Girl Scout leader for 50 years).
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 jolt.co.uk public forums - The Contender, John Forbes Kerry
Since John Forbes Kerry is the challenger for the American presidency, I thought it fitting to start with him and allow the encumbent president the position of reflection.
John Forbes Kerry was born the son of a former Czech Jew, Richard Kerry who fled Europe according to the CBS news, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in603542.shtml in 1905 for unknown reasons since the german occupation of that country didn't happen until the 1930's.
After 2 years of toiling for the Navy Kerry recieved employment for the job he was meant to do, and that was working for the United Nations, "a romantic project that enticed a generation of young diplomats." It was from this foundation that John Kerry would shape his view of foreign relations.
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 John Kerry Article, JohnKerry Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
His family was Roman Catholic, and as achild John served as an altar boy.
One of eleven children, she studied to be a nurse, andserved in the Red Cross in Paris duringWorld War II (she also was a Girl Scout leader for 50 years).
John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, wasborn in Shanghai, China, where the Forbesfamily of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade.
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 John Kerry
Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born on May 10, 1873 in the town of Horni Benesov, Austria-Hungary (in what is now the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic), and grew up in Mödling, Austria (a small town near Vienna).
Although John attended elite schools throughout Europe and New England, the tuition was paid by a wealthy great-aunt, as Richard Kerry's salary could not accomodate the schools attended by the Kerry children.
Kerry says his first memory is from three, of holding his crying mother's hand while they walked through the broken glass and rubble of her childhood home in Saint-Briac, France.
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Rosemary Forbes Kerry (October 27, 1913 - November 14, 2002), born Rosemary Isabel Forbes in Paris, was a daughter of James Grant Forbes of the Forbes family of China and Boston.
She married Richard John Kerry and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.
During her lifetime, she was the beneficiary of Forbes family trusts which her son John Kerry inherited and of which he is now the beneficiary.
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 John Kerry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is a United States senator from Massachusetts, and, due to victories in the U.S. presidential primary elections, is the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for President in 2004.
It was in 1937 while taking a course in sculpture in the French coastal town of Saint-Brieuc that Richard Kerry met Rosemary Forbes, who was born in Paris, France, into the wealthy Forbes family of China and Boston at the Forbes Saint-Brieuc estate.
However, Kerry's own personal wealth and the Forbes family's ties to the opium trade and drug trafficking in China during the Opium War had led him to take a tough line with drug dealers, during the investigations of Noriega, and his own prosecutions of drug dealers in Massachusetts.
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 JOHN KERRY FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Forbes Kerry is not related to billionaire publisher Malcolm_Forbes and his son Steve_Forbes — the latter of whom twice sought the Republican presidential nomination.
John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James_Grant_Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade.
In 1937, Richard Kerry met Rosemary Forbes, a member of the wealthy Forbes_family.
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 John Forbes Kerry: the French Connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kerry and Lalonde, France's former environment minister are the sons of sisters from the wealthy American Forbes family.
A large property here called 'Les Essarts' has belonged to the family since the beginning of the last century.
Kerry's mother was one of 11 siblings who spent much of her youth at this estate and Kerry, who was sent for a time to boarding school in Switzerland, often came to pass summer vacations in Saint-Briac, where Lalonde also came with his branch of the family."
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In fact, the two Forbes clans are not related.
In truth, the Forbes family enjoyed a great fortune, but Kerry's parents themselves were upper-middle class.
Kerry is a distant cousin of U.S. President George W. Bush, though there appears to be some dispute regarding exactly how related they are [1] [2] [3] [4].
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Kerry's mother, Rosemary Kerry, was a Forbes, a notable New England family whose money was nearly as old as the United States (indeed, on one side, she was a Winthrop, whose money was even older than the United States).
As a boy, Kerry sometimes vacationed at a Forbes family estate, called Les Essarts, on the Brittany coast of northern France, and at craggy Naushon Island, a private Forbes family reserve off Cape Cod, with about 30 houses clustered around a private ferry dock and miles of trails for horseback riding and hiking.
John soaked it up, in family talk and on his bicycle adventures around Berlin and later, as he grew older, riding through wider swaths of Europe.
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Although Kerry attended elite schools throughout Europe and New England, the tuition was paid by a wealthy great-aunt, as Richard Kerry's salary could not accommodate the schools attended by the Kerry children.
Summers were spent at the Forbes family estate in France, and Kerry enjoyed much greater extravagance there than he had come to know back in Massachusetts.
At 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) and 185 pounds (84 kg), Kerry has been called the "Lanky Yankee." If he had won the 2004 Presidential election he would have equalled Abraham Lincoln as the tallest U.S. President in history.
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 Biography of John Kerry - Biographyies List - BiograhpyFinder.com
The Kerry-Kohns were Jewish, but the family concealed its background upon migrating to the United States, and raised the Kerry children as Catholics.
She would stand to inherit (in 2004 dollars) approximately $20 million to 40 million from her father and the Forbes family.
Kerry has said that his first memory is when, as a 3-year-old, he held his mother's hand while she cried as they walked through the broken glass and rubble of her childhood home in Saint-Briac, France.
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 John Kerry - dKosopedia
The family estate, known as Les Essarts, had been occupied as Nazi headquarters during the war, and when the Germans left Les Essarts, they bombed it and burnt it down.
Kerry was known to broadcast the words "Kennedy for Senate" from a loudspeaker in his Volkswagen Beetle, adding the words "And Kerry for dogcatcher!" That summer, he began dating Janet Jennings Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister.
Auchincloss invited Kerry to visit her family's estate, Hammersmith Farm in Rhode Island (home to Janet and Jackie's mother Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss and her husband Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr.
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 The Forward Newspaper Online: Kerry’s French Cousin Decides Silence Is Golden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Kerry’s French cousin has decided to zip his gallic lip about his famous relative now that Kerry is the apparent Democratic nominee.
In remarks reported in a March 7 dispatch by Agence France Presse, Lalonde, the son of Kerry’s mother’s sister, related such family trivia as memories of his and Kerry’s grandmother riding around Saint-Briac on horseback and the fact that Kerry’s cousins — the Forbes clan — keep in touch through a family newsletter.
Kerry, who an unidentified senior Republican ridiculed as "French-looking” last year in The Washington Post, spent part of his childhood in France at the Forbes family estate, "Les Essarts,” Agence France Presse reported.
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However, a genealogist hired by the Boston Globe found that Kerry's grandfather was born to a Jewish family in a small town in the Czech Republic.
But nowhere on Kerry's Web site does he mention his summers in France or the family estate, known as Les Essarts, a sprawling property on a bluff over the sea.
In his youth, Kerry joined the family gatherings while his father, a U.S. diplomat, was posted in Europe.
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In remarks reported in a March 7 dispatch by Agence France Presse, Lalonde, the son of Kerry's mother's sister, related such family trivia as memories of his and Kerry's grandmother riding around Saint-Briac on horseback and the fact that Kerry's cousins -- the Forbes clan -- keep in touch through a family newsletter.
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