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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
![[Acloque's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~ac.gif)
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
![[Aigrain's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~ag.gif)
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
![[Alderwerelt's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~al.gif)
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
![[Anderson's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~ad.gif)
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
![[Angerer's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~ar.gif)
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
![[Asso's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~as.gif)
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
![[Bariatinsky's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~ba.gif)
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
![[Gordon Bennett's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~gb.gif)
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
![[Bensa's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~be.gif)
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
![[Bonfiglio's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~bo.gif)
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
![[Borea's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~bx.gif)
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
![[Borelli's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~bi.gif)
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
![[Boyn's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~by.gif)
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
![[Brambilla's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~br.gif)
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