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Club Nautique de Nice (Yacht Club, France): Members' private signals (1907)

See also:

Club Nautique de Nice

CNN regular membership

According to Article 24 of the club's statutes, the admission into CNN of a regular member (aged at least 21) required introduction by two regular members and validation by two-third of the members of the Administrative Commission, in a vote by secret ballot.
According to Article 28, the admission fee was 20 francs; the yearly subscription was 10 francs, to which was added a 20 franc contribution to race organization. Active officers of the Army and the Navy did not pay the admission fee.
According to Article 5, regular members leaving the country for at least one year could ask for a leave, during which they would not pay any subscription; when back to France, their regular membership would be fully restored.

According to Article 7, a section of the CNN could be founded in a place where at leat five regular members stay. This happened in Saint- Raphaël (6 members).

According to Article 29, members were considered as non-resident when they lived in the Department of Alpes-Maritimes for less than six months (at the time, during the winter season).

The CNN 1907 Yearbook shows the private signal of the regular members detailed in the next sections.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

André Acloque

Acloque's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

André Acloque, from Dinard (Brittany), admitted into the CNN in 1904, is listed as the owner of the steam yacht Opale (ex Wanda; 57 tons). His private signal is quartered per saltire blue-white with a red stripe along the descending diagonal.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Count Jean d'Aigrain

Count d'Aigrain's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Count Jean d'Agrain, from Dijon, admitted into the CNN in 1899, is listed as the owner of the cutter Nelly (16 tons). His private signal is vertically divided blue-red by a big white lozenge charged with a yellow crown.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Gaston van Alderwerelt

Gaston van Alderwerelt's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Gaston van Alderwerelt, an engineer from Brussels who wintered in Nice, was involved in the early development of automobile and cinema in Belgium. Van Alderwerelt is an old Flemish patrician family.
Admitted into CNN in 1898, Van Alderwerelt was a member of the club's Administrative Committee, President of the Festival Committee and member of the Technical Committee of the Rowing Section in 1906. Van Alderwerelt's private signal is red with the Earth in the middle, with the continents in blue, the seas in white, the meridians and paralleles in black. The Earth (in Dutch, wereld, "the world") must be canting.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Captain J. Anderson

Anderson's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Captain J. Anderson, from London and wintering in Nice, was admitted into CNN in 1889. He is listed as the owner of the steam schooner Perlona (69 tons; reported in the New York Times, 4 February 1896, "among the many well-known yachts which are already or will shortly be found cruising in the Mediterranean") and of the cutter May Rose (7 tons). On 28 March 1878, Anderson won by strong mistral wind the famous Cannes Regatta on the Rondinella, a Catalan boat he had purchased a few days before, together with its cargo of onions, in the port of Marseilles.
Captain Anderson's private signal is blue with two horizontal white stripes.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

L. Angerer

Angerer's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

L. Angerer is not listed in the members' directory but his private signal is shown, as a white swallow-tailed flag with a red border and the red eagle of Nice.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Hippolyte-Charles Asso

Asso's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Hippolyte-Charles Asso, a merchant from Nice admitted into the CNN in 1905, is listed as the owner of the cutter Iris (2 tons) and of the sloop Jeannot (2 tons). His private signal is a triangular blue flag with a red border and a white star in the middle.

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Prince Alexander Bariatinsky

Prince Bariatinsky's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

Prince Alexander Vladimirovich Bariatinsky (1870-1910; listed as Prince Alexandre Bariatinski in the CNN Yearbook) belonged to an old Russian lineage claiming to descend from Rurik, the founder of the Royal House of Novgorod, through the Grand Princes of Kiev.
The Bariatinsky were made Hereditary Commanders of the Russian Grand Priory of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, instituted in 1798 by Emperor Paul I. Alexander was the son of the 3rd Hereditary Commander, Prince Vladimir Anatolievich (1843-1914) and the father of the 4th, Andrei Alexandrovich (1902-1944), and 5th, Alexander Alexandrovich (1905-1992) Hereditary Commanders of the order.

Alexander Bariatinsky was admitted as a member of the Saint-Raphaël section of CNN; he lived in the Villa Notre-Dame, purchased in 1894, with his wife, the famous actress Lydia Yavorska, Princess Bariatinsky (1874-1921; née Lydia Borisovna von Hubbenet, later Lady Pollock), and, according to a 1896 census, a large international household (German, Russian Austrian, Swiss and English servants, lads and cooks). Among the subsequent owners of the villa is the Princess Clementine of Belgium (1872-1955). Split into apartments in 1953, the Villa Notre-Dame is registered on the General Listing of Cultural Heritage made by the French Ministry of Culture.

Prince Bariatinsky is listed as the owner of a sloop (130 tons) and a schooner (80 tons) of the same name, Wakawa.
The prince's private signal is blue with a thin yellow saltire and Michael the Archangel, taken from the Prince's coat of arms, "On a Maltese Cross argent and encircled by the collar of the Order of St John with its pendant: Per pale, azure Michael the Archangel vested argent his dexter arm embowed and holding a sword erect of the last and on his sinister arm a shield or; or an eagle displayed contourné sable, armed argent crowned or and holding in bend in its sinister claw a crozier proper. On a chief gules a cross argent."

Ivan Sache, 20 May 2010

James Gordon Bennett

Gordon Bennett's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918) inherited in 1872 the New York Herald from his father. The newspaper funded in 1869-1871 Stanley's expedition that retrieved Livingstone in Africa. After a big scandal, Gordon Bennett left America in 1877 and settled permanently in Paris, where he still ran the New York Herald and founded the local Paris Herald, forerunner of the today's International Herald Tribune. The two newspapers funded in 1877 another Stanley's expedition and DeLong's expedition to North Pole on baord of the Jeannette that tragically ended in 1881.
Fond of modern sports, Gordon Bennett, the youngest commodore ever of the New York Yacht Club, won in 1866 the first transoceanic boat race on the Henrietta; credited of the introduction of polo in the Americas, he created the Gordon Bennett Cups in yachting, automobile (1900-1905), and ballooning (1906-present).

Gordon Bennett spent his time between a yacht moored at Paris on the Seine and the Namouna cottage at Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Admitted member of the CNN in 1901, he is listed as the owner of the steam yacht Lysistrata (2,082 tons), the biggest boat of the club's fleet, and one of the most modern of the time - the ship included a Turkish bath and a resident cow for fresh milk.
Gordon Bennett's private signal is a swallow-tailed white flag with oblique horizontal edges, with two red triangles placed along the hoist and a blue lozenge in the middle.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Paul Bensa

Bensa's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Paul Bensa, a merchant from Nice, was admitted into the CNN in 1898. His private signal is blue with a white descending diagonal stripe.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Louis Bonfiglio

Bonfiglio's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Louis Bonfiglio was a banker and municipal councillor of Nice. A familiar of Count Victor de Cessole (l'amic Victour, also a member of the CNN), he significanlty contributed to the development of arts in Nice. In 1941, he wrote in Nissard a kind of funeral oration for Victor de Cessole, entitled La maioun dóu Chivalié (The Knigth's House). In May 1941, as the senior municipal councillor, he released a pamphlet, quickly censored, opposing to the incorporation of Nice to Italy wished by the local fascists.
A talented violonist, Bonfiglio founded in Nice the Beethoven Association, which organized 16 concerts for the celebration of the centenary of the musician's death - the 17 quatuors and the 32 piano sonatas were played. He published in 1937 Propos sur quelques rôles pour soprano gracieux. The musician Amédée Reuchsel (1875-1931; a less-known pianist and organist, student of Gabriel Fauré) dedicated his "Trio for piano, violin and cello", released in 1907, to "Mr. Louis Bonfiglio, Founder and President of the Beethoven Association in Nice".

Bonfiglio, admitted into the CNN in 1898, is listed as a member of the rowing section; he was Vice-President of the club, President of the Motorboating Committee and member of the Technical Committee of the Rowing Section in 1906.
Bonfiglio was the cox of the eight Yolande that won the Nice-Naples match on 2 June 1901 in Naples and of the eight Passiflore that won again on 5 June 1904 in Naples. He won in 1894 the first CNN Cup on the houari Mésange.
Bonfiglio was the main redactor of the 1907 Yearbook - and probably of other annual releases - contributing the essay La tactique en course (pp. 227-258), and, co-signed with F. Coucke, a tribute to the Belgian victory in the Henley regatta (Les Belges à Henley, pp. 261-267).
His private signal is divided blue-white by the descending diagonal, with a blue "L" in lower fly.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Guillaume Boréa

Boréa's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Guillaume Boréa (1866-1951) was a Nissard writer (as Guihen Borea). A professional lawyer, he was appointed Curator of the Masséna Museum in 1919. As a member of the Académia Nissarda, he published several historical articles in the academy's review, Nice Historique and wrote a number of Nissard comedies.
Admitted into the CNN in 1897, a Vice-President of the club and President of the club's Sailing Committee in 1906, Boréa is listed as the owner of the houari Triolet (ex Queen of Hearts, 1.5 ton). His private signal is red with a white clover leaf in the middle.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Alphonse and Paul-Louis Borelli

Borelli's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

The Borelli brothers, merchants in Nice, admitted into the CNN in 1897, are listed as the owners of the cutter Nikê I (3 tons) and of the houari Mésange (2 tons). In 1906, Alphonse Borelli was Secreatary of the Group of Sailors while Paul-Louis Borelli was Secretary of the club's Sailing Committee. Their private signal is blue with a red diagonal descending stripe.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Charles Boyn

Boyn's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Charles Boyn, admitted into the CNN in 1904, was Director of the Agence Générale Maritime, who superintended in 1908 the building of the expedition ship Pourquoi-Pas ?. His name was given to the Boyn Ridge, the northernmost ridge of Havre Mountains, North Alexander Island, Antarctica. The Agence Générale Maritime, owned by C. Boyn, P. Voizot de Lerma and O. Roussin, was established in Paris in the offices of the review Le Yacht (founded in 1878); it had "correspondents in all important yachting markets".
Boyn's private signal is divided blue-red by a white diagonal descending stripe.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Giuseppe Brambilla

Brambilla's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

Giuseppe Brambilla (listed as Joseph Brambilla in the CNN Yearbook, with addresses in Milano and Como) was admitted into CNN in 1897. He is listed as the owner of the cutter Bonafide (7 tons), of the luggers Spindrift (1.5 ton) and Daï-Daï IV (1 ton), and of the sloop Spartivento (1 ton).
Brambilla's private signal is blue with a grid made of two horizontal and two vertical thin yellow stripes.

Ivan Sache, 21 May 2010

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