#Guillot Family

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Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion

Image Description: A black and white portrait of the Ovillier Guillot and Eve Vice family, circa the early-to-mid 1900s. Top (children), left to right: Eunice Guillot 1922-Dec; Joseph Guillot 1926-2014; Lenus Guillot 1923-1960; Beulah Guillot 1918-1991. Bottom (parents), left to right: Ovillier Guillot 1897-1967; Eve Vice 1897-1950.

The two daughters wear similar dark, button-down dresses with white doll collars. The mother wears a dark, button-down open-collar blouse or dress. The two sons and the father wear white dress shirts covered by fastened suit jackets complete with ties.

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Pictured above is my 3rd great-uncle Ovillier Guillot and his family. He is the 4th great-grandson of Jean Baptiste Guillot.

Today is the Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion.

While I have quite a few direct ancestors who lived in Nova Scotia and ended up in France at the time of the expulsion, there's only one family unit that I have been able to confirm was expelled.

That was the family of my 8th great-grandfather Jean Baptiste Guillot, born in Acadia in 1720 with his body given to the Atlantic Ocean in 1758. His family was expelled from Cobequid, Acadia, Nova Scotia to France during the brutal "Great Expulsion" by the British, who wanted to squelch any potential threats from the Acadians and the Mi'kmaq during the French and Indian War.

His son (my 7th great-grandfather) Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot was only 13 in 1758 when they had to take the long, arduous 75-day journey to France. His father Jean, along with 4 of his brothers, never made it off of the ship.

Charles grew up in France where he married and had 3 children of his own. They left France in 1785 to board one of the seven ships paid for by Spain, Le Saint-Rémi, to take them to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

Many members of the Wabanaki Confederacy (I believe predominately it was the Mi'kmaq militia), in addition to other affiliated Indigenous tribes and Acadians, who rallied a resistance were slaughtered or expelled. They refused to swear loyalty to the British crown and surrender to British colonists, refused to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism, and refused to allow themselves to be displaced without a fight. Numerous battles took place to stop the deportation with wins and losses across the board.

While no one has one lineage, I was raised as a proud Cajun despite having often felt ashamed of being Cajun for various reasons (like my accent). I even tried my hardest over twelve years to banish anything that could link me to my roots, not knowing the history behind a part of my ethnicity and culture.

Digging into my ancestry has been a wild ride, and there were many things found within my lineages that were not honorable in any way, but this chunk of my history? This has made me proud to be Cajun again.

I wish I had respected it more when I was still able to be immersed in it. I wish I had asked my pawpaw to tell me more stories. I wish I had kept up with Cajun French (AKA Louisiana French). I wish I hadn't let my cultural heritage fall through my fingers.

Many blessings to those who fought and lost their lives against the British colonists in an attempt to secure the freedom of not only themselves but of future generations to come.

[Disclaimer: I am still only beginning to educate myself about this event and am utilizing my current understanding of how events unfolded and who was involved. I apologize in advance for any misconceptions or misinformation regarding the historical accuracy of my comments.]

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On this day:

DIAMOND OF DOOM

On December 14, 1967, Evalyn McLean, who never gained possession of the Hope Diamond bequeathed to her, nevertheless seemed to have acquired its curse, for she unexplainably died. Her grandmother had purchased the gem in 1911 and lived a life of tragedy: an automobile mishap killed her young son, her daughter committed suicide, and her husband was unfaithful and mentally unstable. She died in 1947, willing the diamond to her grandchildren, but her jewels were sold to pay off her debts.

The Hope Diamond was rumored to have begun as a 112-carat gem pried from the third eye of an Indian deity and brought to France in the mid-1600s by merchant traveler Jean-Baptiste Travernier. Over the years it possessed and was possessed by the French royal family, who were victims of intrigue, embezzlement, and executions; and Cadet Guillot, a thief who stole the diamond during the French Revolution, smuggled it to England, and was imprisoned. The diamond then disappeared until just after the statute of limitations on its theft had expired.

In 1812 diamond merchant Daniel Eliason sold it to Philip Hope, Dutch heir to a banking fortune. The diamond bred bitterness and bedlam in the Hope family for two generations before being sold to pay off debt to Simon Frankel, a New York jeweller. Other rumored owners of the Hope Diamond include:

* King George IV of Britain;

* Simon Montharides, who died with his family when his horse spooked and overturned their carriage;

* A Turkish sultan, who stabbed his wife and was overthrown;

* Two unnamed murdered owners;

* Jacques Celot, a French broker who went insane and killed himself;

* A Russian prince, Ivan Kanitovski, who gave the diamond to his mistress, an actress who was shot onstage while wearing it; Kanitovski himself was later murdered.

Finally, in 1911, Pierre Cartier who sold it to Evalyn Walsh McLean, who let her dog wear the diamond when she wasn't. The diamond’s final owner, Harry Winston, didn't believe in the curse. He mailed it in a brown paper bag as a donation to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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explaining liaisons or my main oc thing whatever 💅

tw; terrorism, war, bombs and stuff

this is europe edition asia and africa edition coming soon to a tumblr near you

some things u need to know in advances

africa avoids serious colonialism but colonialism still happens elsewhere

sykes-picot doesnt happen so arabia is still a singular country really

austria instigated world war 2, because

germany never existed as a unified country and stayed split into kingdoms like it was before the 19th century

romania is a monarchy 💅

russia got nuked in the early 2000s by themselves and everything east of moscow is basically toxic and the gvmt is in shambles

in 2007, northern ireland recedes from the UK into ireland. the UK is lenient abt this and is just yeah yeah whatever you do you ig and no one dies. however scotland tries to declare independence about a month later and the UK immediately backtracks on what they said previously and goes to war with scotland to keep them from leaving. during this time, the monarch, a young dumbass prince, usurps the prime minister’s seat and dissolves parliament (albeit illegally) and declares martial law. he makes a lot of military decisions that a lot of english citizens feel are unnecessary, and they are kind of tired of the whole monarchy in the 21st century thing.

so in early 2010 the war ends with england winning and annexing scotland back but only after 3 major cities are completely destroyed. the english citizens the scottish the irish and the eu and basically everyone in the world ever thinks this was a really bad take so in mid 2010 a former MP named ben hunter leads a miltia mostly formed from other mps and angry citizens and essentially kills the dumbass prince and his military henchmen and then exiles the royal family. the EU, who originally supported mr. hunter is like “wait, no, don’t do THAT,” because as we all know monarchy states essentially run the show and they don’t like their whole divine right being threatened. so all the monarchy states in the EU, after some protests start up demanding an end to 21st century royalty, secede together on a single day (december 18th, 2010) and declare war on england and france. yes, another war.

the war lasts around 9 years and doesn’t really pass europe aside from some debates and revaluing of ideas in africa and asia. the war ends in a draw, with the republics creating their own union, the REU, and the monarchies creating their own union, the CMS. a handful of european states declare themselves independent from both and act as buffers (macedonia, moldova, estonia, finland, iceland, kosovo, cyprus). things are awfully tense for a while between the two especially considering they kept trying to murder each other’s leaders. things cool down after a while, until 2027, when the very gentle balance keeping the two sides from war slowly begins to crumble.

it starts when a monarch in monaco attempts to expand territory into france and italy then threatens war, obviously the madman is subdued and it doesnt happen but the REU is on edge. in late 2027, the belgian monarch and prime minister are killed by the deputy pm, ms. amelie de warlencourt, after she discovers that the two of them are having an affair. fortunately the independents are able to manage the situation so it doesn’t turn into another whole out war. unforunately the damage has already been done, the REU has gained another member state, and the CMS swears that if aggressed again they will go to war with the REU. in 2028 an REU prime minister, mr. fedya vranchev of bulgaria, goes into independent territory (macedonia) and commits a mass assassination, nearly killing the macedonian prime minister and killing his entire cabinet of 18 people. the CMS then accuses the mass murder as an act of unwarranted aggression from the REU and is tempted to declare war but is stopped by the UN assembly general.

but only three months after the murder, the serbian capital of belgrade gets totally bombed out, killing most of parliament except for like 10 people and prime minister ms. svetlana arsic and her entire cabinet, except for her finance minister/personal accountant cvetko rajkovic. cvetko is unqualified as heck but ends up getting elected in a panicked snap election facilitated by the REU. he really doesn’t want this. why? he may or may not be having a gay affair with his country’s worstest enemy, the president of kosovo. also, while the balkans are almost on the verge of another war the slovakian prime minister ms klara kollarova may or may not know about a plot to take over the continent by her hungarian and polish neighbors but refuses to tell anyone out of fear for the life of her girlfriend best friend ms. pavla klimesova the prime minister of czechia. oh, and former pm of england mr. ben hunter and his dpm lloyd fowler & former president of france ms. liv guillot-akoma and her vp angeline toussaint may or may not have started a secret surveillance agency that they didn’t tell anyone about.

so that’s liaisons (part 1: bitches in europe) and i hope it was a wild ride from start to finish. don’t worry i’ll make a character masterlist to go w this post.

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An Evolution of Dragon Stories: Dragonslayer by Duncan M. Hamilton

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We look at how Dragonslayer by Duncan M Hamilton fits into the long-running fantasy subgenre involving dragons.

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When Guillot is tasked with slaying the last of the dragons in Duncan M. Hamilton's Dragonslayer, the first in a planned fantasy trilogy, the character is way past his prime. All bets should be on the dragon, but a semblance of that knightly duty remains—even though Guillot struggles with alcoholism and is actively thwarted by someone high in power, there's tension in the narrative. Could Guillot actually win?

read more: Ruin of Kings is Must-Read Epic Fantasy

Knights and dragons -- it’s a tale as old as fiction and mythology. The traditional sort of dragon—winged, fire breathing—was popularized in the Middle Ages, the most famous story being St. George slaying the dragon. That story was immortalized in a Raphael painting, circa 1506, titled "Saint George and the Dragon," that now resides in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Dragons have been an enduring story and iconography throughout history. You’re hard pressed to find a culture without a dragon or dragon-like entity. Ancient China, Sumeria, Nepal, Tibet... even the Aztec had a dragon-like creature woven into their iconography. A fantastical creature possibly derived from a combination of imagination and seeing real creatures like crocodiles, or in some cases finding fossilized dinosaur bones, the dragon is something as universal as the act of telling stories.

Dragons were thought of as creatures to be overcome by the most gallant and saintly, and thus you can hardly see a story involving a knight without a scaly, fire-spouting foe. Even though the book The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, published in 1903, didn’t contain any dragons, the many variations on that tale since have often incorporated the creature as something for King Arthur’s knights to surmount. By the time we get to the BBC’s Merlin, the wise yet destructive dragon was such an important part of the narrative, he was voiced by none other than British acting icon John Hurt.

read more: Adventure Zone Returns With Murder on the Rockport Limited!

We’ve seen the image of the dragon take a decidedly friendlier turn. Perhaps the beginnings of this could be seen in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series published in 1967. There, the series was science fiction instead of the usual fantasy, because the dragons were genetically engineered. It made McCaffrey the first women to win a Hugo Award, and spawned a rich fandom in which fans "play" Pern, creating original characters to inhabit the fictional world.

In movies, we’ve seen Pete the Dragon (1977 and 2016) and Dragonheart (1996), both unabashed family romps that basically give the character a magical best friend. The Inheritance Cycle, a book series by Christopher Paolini, also played on the dragon-riding fun, and was eventually made into a lackluster movie.

Not all dragons had to be series either. Ever read Myth Adventures by Robert Asprin, published from 1978 to 2002? Because you should. The main character has a pet dragon called Gleep who only says the word “gleep.”

History is cyclical. What’s old becomes new again. As you might have noticed, dragons have returned to popular fiction in recent years as their fearsome selves—most notably the Cumber-beast Smaug in The Hobbit, Daenerys’s besties in Game of Thrones (both adaptations of books published in 1937 and 1996, respectively.)

read more: The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm — Checking in on Christopher Paolini's Eragon

The kids get How to Train Your Dragon’s Toothless. The grown ups with an HBO Go password get what happens if you don’t train your dragon to be a big puppy. The shift from monster to friend to monster again—it’s paralleled in fiction's exploration of other fantastical creatures, like vampires, werewolves, etc. (I have yet to hear of any angsty sparkling dragons and, if there are some, feel free not to share them. Some things are meant to be slain.)

We’ve had fantastic stories told that resonate with an audience long after the last pages or last episodes have aired. You still hear shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad mentioned -- these shows broke down the usual expectations about gangsters and drug dealers and created quality entertainment. We’re seeing that in our fantasy and science fiction, too. A classic foe—the dragon—can return to fiction and represent an audience’s need for more than just a good guy fighting a bad monster.

Reinvention has kept old stories and concepts fresh. Take for example, the bold brash action in the Amazon Prime series The Boys. Gone are the usual tenets of a hero’s compulsion to seek justice. Instead we get a super violent, ugly view of a corporatized hero system designed to sell movies and stuff and pander to the American dream while sweeping accidental and wrongful deaths under the rug.

When speaking to Den of Geek about his creative process, author Duncan M. Hamilton explained: “For the dragons, I leaned toward real myths and legends as a starting point, then embellished to my own taste as I went.” That embellishment created more than just a monster of legend, but a being with a rich inner life that allowed the reader to take a peek inside his head for a few chapters.

read more: Contemporary Fantasy Meets Noir in Magic For Liars

In many ways, Dragonslayer represents a return to the classic story of a gallant knight riding into battle against a fire-breathing beast. What it does well is the fact that our hero is hardly suited for the task anymore, and that our dragon is even questioning his own motives. In Dragonslayer, chapters take turns seeing from Guillot the knight’s point of view, the sorceress he befriends, his human adversary, and the dragon himself. From each character’s perspective, we see their wants and needs, their motivations and the dangers they face. We empathize, even, when faced with the adversaries of the hero. Even when that adversary is a great scaly beast.

Hamilton told us: “I think being able to empathize with the dragon makes for a far more compelling story.” It does. Looking at the dragon in a new light also helps illuminate how special our protagonist is. Guillot is not a knight in shining armor. He was, once, but he’s let himself go. He’s almost reprehensible, wasting away his days as a drunkard and a nuisance to his town, languishing in his bad memories.

Guillot often bemoans his ineptitude in the beginning, even feeling guilty when the sorceress thanks him for rescuing her from certain death: “The praise made Gill feel uncomfortable. He was a drunk who had pissed his life away because things hadn’t gone his way. He thought about admitting that he had still been drunk when he’d rescued her, but couldn’t bring himself to say it.”

But when the call to action comes, he answers, even if he begrudges being out of shape and out of practice. In this way, Guillot is more like the reader than many heroes in classic fantasy stories. Once a skilled swordsman, he’s woefully out of practice, and rides forth believing full well that this could be his end.

read more: K.A. Doore on The Perfect Assassin

Add to this the search for a relic that may be even more important than anyone realizes. This relic ends up having a deep significance to Guillot, something that he and his allies won’t realize right away until the pieces start falling together with each new discovery. And who happens to have that relic in their claws? I think you might see how this all ties together... 

Alliances are made, promises broken, secret histories revealed—and it all revolves around the discovery of a dragon waking up from a long snooze. 

Taking something old and making it new again—it’s a way to show familiar ideas but make them fresh. It’s an opportunity to explore new territory. Hamilton certainly accomplishes this in Dragonslayer.

Bridget LaMonica is a contributor at Den of Geek. Read more of her work here or follow her on Twitter @BridgetLaMonica.

Read and download the Den of Geek SDCC 2019 Special Edition Magazine right here!

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Jul 31, 2019

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🎭 « LE PRÉNOM » 🎭 Les répétitions ont à peine commencé avec Émilie Guillot @hkta_official que vous pouvez déjà réserver vos places en ligne. C’est fantastique. Photos @photochromatique La pièce culte de Alexandre de La Patellière et Matthieu Delaporte mise en scène par Emilie Guillot @hkta_official se jouera du 18 au 24 février à Hong-Kong. Les tickets sont en vente 🎫 ! Vincent, la quarantaine bien entamée, va être papa pour la première fois. Invité à dîner chez sa soeur et son beau-frère, il retrouve Claude, un ami d'enfance. La soirée se déroule dans la joie et la bonne humeur jusqu'au moment où Vincent annonce le prénom du futur bébé. Le dîner familial sombre alors dans le chaos et devient le théâtre de violents règlements de comptes. #theatre #sauvesparletheatre #hkta #leprenom @afhongkong @tv5mondeapac @sauves_par_le_kong #sauvesparlekong #sauvesparlapoesie @photochromatique @trait_dunion @franceinhk @lepetitjournal_hongkong @doodhk @ufehongkong @hong.kongais (à Faust International Youth Theatre HK) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bshh6AVHPK2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=55x957xlujgf

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Un jour de congé peut être très travaillé

Journée de récupération du samedi travaillé et pour la maison, l'intendance, un projet familial, et ma petite santé (il convient de faire l'entretien), ce fut une journée aussi intense qu'une journée travaillée et qui m'a laissée dans un état d'épuisement caractérisé. Pour autant : tout ce qui était devant être fait l'a été. Une fois de plus j'ai dû m'employer à contre-emploi, obligée de jouer les leaders et décisionnaires afin que les choses avancent, d'imposer des choses, de fournir l'énergie. Une très bonne soirée à la librairie amie, où Bertrand Guillot était invité a un peu compensé cette sorte de détresse - devoir aller contre soi - ; mais il m'a fallu partir tôt, de peur de ne pouvoir tenir le coup le lendemain. Et puis j'ai deux beaux tee-shirts de mon club de triathlon.

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Bernard Guillot Death - Obituary : Bernard Guillot Has Died

Bernard Guillot Death - Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death SKOTO GALLERY is sad to announce the passing of Artist Bernard Guillot 1950-2021........click link to learn more

Bernard Guillot Death – Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death SKOTO GALLERY is sad to announce the passing of Artist Bernard Guillot 1950-2021 Through a social media announcement, DeadDeath learned on July 14, 2021, about the death of Bernard Guillot who has died. In the mourning spirit of this death, families, friends, and associates of the deceased share their sad news across social media…

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PEOPLE LIKE THEM

What would it take to provoke extreme savagery in a seemingly normal person? This is the question Anna Guillot explores after her husband, Constant, kills five members of the Langlois family—Bakary, Sylvia, and their three children—in a fit of extreme rage. For a long time, the residents of the placid French village of Carmac haven't felt any real threats. They watched the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris at a remove, through televised media coverage. All that changes when Bakary Langlois arrives with his family. Not only is Bakary Black, he is also rich, a markedly different social class than most other Carmac residents. His custom-built chalet is a source of envy, especially for Constant, his neighbor. Anna narrates two stories: One looks back at her husband’s early days as a promising pole vaulter whose athletic dreams are crushed by a nasty accident while the other details the systematic resentment that builds in an already fractured Constant, whose perceived indignities are compounded when Anna finds work as a maid at the Langlois chalet. Then the cauldron of simmering resentment boils over when Bakary swindles Constant out of his parents’ life savings: 8,000 euros. In her first novel to be translated into English, Sedira packs a powerful punch, exploring the class-race divide through Constant, Anna, and the rest of the town’s residents. The graphic murders stand in stark contrast to Sedira's subtle accounting of Constant’s tortured path. At the center of the tragedy is complicity: Constant is never made to realize that a bad hand might be crippling but not reason enough to take it out on the perceived “other.”

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People Like Them by Samira Sedira

People Like Them

By Samira Sedira

Translated by Lara Vergnaud

Raven Books, Bloomsbury (UK)

Penguin Books (USA)

Publication Date: 8 July 2021

Originally published in French as Des Gens Comme Eux, People Like Them was the winner of the Prix Eugène Dabit in France and is probably the most powerful novels I have read this year. The book asks one central question: how could an apparently ordinary person commit the most atrocious of crimes? The story is not a whodunit, that is the clear from outset. Rather it is a whydunnit, that explores the insidiousness of racism, jealousy and financial envy.

The story opens with a rich description of the village of Carmac, within the Haute-Savoie department set in the eastern Alps of France which highlights the peace and tranquillity that can usually be found in the location. Yet behind the picturesque portrayal of a remote area in the mountains there is an ominous warning within the vocabulary.

From this serene setting we are then taken into the narrative of Anna Guillot who is reflecting upon the dreadful events that saw her husband Constant Guillot murder 5 members of the same family in cold blood. Her dialogue is written in a way that it is addressed to her husband of sixteen years as she recounts scenes from their everyday life from their original meeting to his appearance in the court room. We hear about Guillot's upbringing, the challenges he has overcome but also their ongoing reliance on others.

Carmac is shown to be a village where the inhabitants all know each other, where they have lived generation after generation and all live in relative equality. Anna starts to recall their close friendships with neighbours and some of the prominent and colourful characters of the village including their friends François, Simon and Lucie plus older residents like Abbott and Costello. Little changes in the village either but then an area is cleared for a new chalet to be built and it’s very apparent to all the locals that this will be a far larger residence than the existing houses in the village. When the residents Bakary and Sylvia Langlois and their three children move in, they are friendly and hospitable to all, inviting the locals to parties at their large residence. Bakary is very difference in appearance to the local inhabitants as he was born in Gabon where he was adopted by a Parisian couple and brought up in the city.

Constant Guillot's low self asteem receives a boost as he befriends the highly impressive Bakary and the two men spend lots of time together. He enjoys having a charismatic friend who has social status that he is keen to flaunt. François, Simon and Lucie also get on well with the new couple. However a chain of events and differences start to see Guillot distance himself from Langlois and Simon steps in between them.

What is particularly impressive about People Like Them is that Sedira's prose is so convincing. Little misunderstandings and implicit actions worsen the situation in a very believable way. For the reader it is very possible to feel a level of sympathy and perhaps understanding with some of the feelings that Guillot suffers from. Yet this is a quintuple murderer who killed innocent children! People Like Them is a highly thought provoking read which does lead you to question your own thoughts and sence of perspective. We view Anna Guillot try to reconcile this through her own recollections. As readers though, the novel leaves us with uncomfortable questions about our own ability "get closer to the shadows” to quite a phrase used by Sedira.

While very different in their execution, there is a similarity in themes with this novel and The Summer Of Reckoning by Marion Brunet. Both are set in rural France and the culmination of resentment, envy racism and social class spark the timbers that lead to an infernal rage of brutality.

Lara Vergnaud maintains the Francophone authenticity of the story in a taut translation which steadily builds up in tension as the families grow more distant.

At the conclusion of her book, Samira Sedira's note tells us that People Like Them is inspired by a true crime event committed in 2003 in a village in France’s Haute-Savoie region, where a man killed a family of five. Sedira observes that the media had not picked up on the point that the father of the family was black in an area of France that is largely white. Therefore her book is a fictionalised exploration of the factors which may have led to the murders.

People Like Them firmly presents the case that many murders are not born evil but are drawn to carry out such acts though their own weaknesses, their attempts to restore order and the failings of human nature. A real thought provoking and hard hitting novel of only 33 thousand words, I highly recommend it.

Samira Sedira is a novelist, playwright, and actress who was born in Algeria and moved to France as a young girl with her family. In 2008, after two decades of acting for film and the stage, she became a cleaning woman, an experience that inspired her autobiographical novel L’odeur des planches (The Smell of the Stage). People Like Them is her fourth novel and the first to be translated into English. Lara Vergnaud is an award winning translator who specialises in North African literature.

Many thanks to Katie Ellis-Brown and Ros Ellis at Raven Bloomsbury for providing me with digital and physical proofs of this compelling book.

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ODLs (yellow) bind to a site on the ribosome not used by other antibiotics. Location of this site is shown here relative to the sites of other known antibiotics, such as negamycin (green), tetracycline (dark blue), aminoglycoside antibiotic paromomycin (red) and streptomycin (light blue).

A new class of antibiotics to combat drug resistance

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics.

The antibiotic, first identified by Nosopharm, is unique and promising on two fronts: its unconventional source and its distinct way of killing bacteria, both of which suggest the compound may be effective at treating drug-resistant or hard-to-treat bacterial infections.

Called odilorhabdins, or ODLs, the antibiotics are produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil-dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food. The bacteria help to kill the insect and, importantly, secrete the antibiotic to keep competing bacteria away. Until now, these nematode-associated bacteria and the antibiotics they make have been largely understudied.

To identify the antibiotic, the Nosopharm research team screened 80 cultured strains of the bacteria for antimicrobial activity. They then isolated the active compounds, studied their chemical structures and engineered more potent derivatives.

The study, published in Molecular Cell, describes the new antibiotic and, for the first time, how it works.

UIC’s Alexander Mankin and Yury Polikanov are corresponding authors on the study and led the research on the antibiotic’s mechanism of action. They found that ODLs act on the ribosome — the molecular machine of individual cells that makes the proteins it needs to function — of bacterial cells.

The UIC researchers, including graduate student Tanja Florin and postdoctoral research associate Malgorzata Dobosz-Bartoszek, also found that when bound to the ribosome, the antibiotic disrupts its ability to interpret and translate genetic code.

“Like many clinically useful antibiotics, ODLs work by targeting the ribosome,” said Polikanov, assistant professor of biological sciences in the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, “but ODLs are unique because they bind to a place on the ribosome that has never been used by other known antibiotics.”

“When ODLs are introduced to the bacterial cells, they impact the reading ability of the ribosome and cause the ribosome to make mistakes when it creates new proteins,” said Mankin, director of the Center for Biomolecular Sciences in the UIC College of Pharmacy. “This miscoding corrupts the cell with flawed proteins and causes the bacterial cell to die.”

While many antibiotics can slow bacterial growth, Mankin says antibiotics that actually kill bacteria, called bactericidal antibiotics, are rare.

“The bactericidal mechanism of ODLs and the fact that they bind to a site on the ribosome not exploited by any known antibiotic are very strong indicators that ODLs have the potential to treat infections that are unresponsive to other antibiotics,” said Mankin, who is also professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy.

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistant is one of the biggest threats to global health today and a significant contributor to longer hospital stays, higher medical costs and increased mortality.

In France, the Nosopharm researchers tested the ODL compounds against bacterial pathogens, including many known to develop resistance.

“We found that the ODL compounds cured mice infected with several pathogenic bacteria and demonstrated activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens, notably including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriacae,” said co-corresponding author Maxime Gualtieri, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Nosopharm.

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriacae, or CRE, are a family of germs that have high levels of resistance to antibiotics — one study suggests that CRE, which are the common culprits in bloodstream and surgical site infections, contribute to death in up to 50 percent of patients who become infected.

The researchers say this study is a testament to the growing trend of international and cross-disciplinary collaboration, which is needed to combat the growing and global threat of antibiotic resistance.

“In this case, the combined expertise of the industry, which has the resources to develop new compounds, and the academia, which has the research and lab capabilities to understand how the compounds work, have enabled the development of this new class of antibiotics,” Mankin said.

“The collaboration between multiple labs with diverse areas of expertise add credibility to the research,” Polikanov said.

While ODLs have yet to be thoroughly investigated for their therapeutic potential, the researchers say that the study findings justify future research in this direction.

“Collaborations with academia with renown expertise in antibiotics like the UIC team help us for this preclinical development,” said Philippe Villain-Guillot, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nosopharm.

Collaborating on the research, which was funded by Nosopharm, are Lucile Pantel, Emilie Racine, Matthieu Sarciaux, Marine Serri, Jessica Houard and Andre Aumelas from Nosopharm; Jean-Marc Campagne, Renata Marcia de Figueiredo and Camille Midrier from the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier in Montpellier, France; Sophie Gaudriault, Alain Givaudan and Anne Lanois from the Universite de Montpellier in Montpellier, France; Steve Forst from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Christelle Cotteaux-Lautard and Jean-Michel Bolla from Aix-Marseille Universite in Marseille, France; Carina Vingsbo Lundberg from Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Douglas Huseby and Diarmaid Hughes from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

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