#armand vallee

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Armand Vallee, 1928

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Armand Vallée (1884-1960), Danseuses Type Sport, A Quoi Pensent Les Jeunes Filles (What Do Young Girls Think), La Vie Parisienne, 19. April, 1924.

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Armand Vallée, A Quoi Pensent Les Jeunes Filles (What Do Young Girls Think), La Vie Parisienne, April 19, 1924.

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Armand Vallée (1909-1945) Little fix, 1920

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Armand Vallée Artiste, Va !

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Armand Vallee

"For La Vie Parisienne", 1920.

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Mondain Armand Vallee 

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"YACOVLOFF'S FATE LIES IN BALANCE," Montreal Gazette. January 27, 1913. Page 11. --- Hon. C. J. Doherty Intervenes in Person to Get Testimony Regarding Prisoner. ---- PROBES JAIL OFFICIALS. ---- Local Advocate Named Commissioner and After Lengthy Examination Latter Forwards Report to Ottawa. ---- Whether Sylvio Yacovloff, the thrice reprieved murderer will or will not finally mount the scaffold next Friday morning, will depend to a large extent on what jail officials and others who have come into contact with him, think of his mental condition. And this, as a direct result of intervention on the part of the Minister of Justice who, last week, appointed a confidential commissioner to make a thorough investigation into the matter. It is understood that the Hon. Minister, being impressed with certain eleventh hour representations brought to his notice regarding the condemned man, desired to ascertain for himself the truth of the allegations made, so as to enable him to be thoroughly au courant of the situation. With this end in view, he appointed Mr. Armand Grenier, a local advocate, a special commissioner, instructing him at the same time to go down to the jail and examine all the guards and others who have come into touch with Yacovloff since his confinement on the capital charge. Mr. Grenier acting on the instructions received, applied to Sheriff Lemieux for the permission to visit the jail and conduct an enquiry. This was granted, and Mr. Grenier spent the whole day. Thursday, taking note of the testimony of the various guards who have served on the death watch. The result of his investigations was embodied in a lengthy report which was forwarded to the Minister of Justice, on Saturday.. The communication being a confidential one no idea of its contents will be ascertainable toll such time as the Minister takes definite steps in the matter of a order-in-council commutation of sentence, or of allowing the execution to be carried out.

The action of the Minister of Justice in thus personally intervening in the matter is said to be a direct result of the opinions of those who have come into contact with the prisoner, and who have not hesitated in maintaining that, whilst he is not violently insane, he gives undisputed signs of being irresponsible. Jail officials, at the time of the last reprieve, were almost unanimous in stating Yacovloff was "queer," to say the least. His wild boasting of heroic exploits, his outburst of laughter under the most lugubrious conditions: his periods of depression when he weeps for hours over the most trivial Incidents, have thoroughly convinced jail officials that the prisoner "is not all there."

And, as Governor Vallee remarked in course of conversation with Crown official on the night of a the last stay of sentence, it was the officials of the jail who were probably in the best position to express an opinion regarding the mental balance of any prisoner. After all, in any case where a prisoner was suspected of being unbalanced, it was the jail officials who got first hint of it. It was they who pointed out the man to any alienists who might be called in, and, according to the Governor, nine cases out of ten, the suspicions of the jail officials were found to be about right.

Other jail officers, speaking of Yacovloff, express an unqualified opinion that the young man is irresponsible. From stories told by his brothers, it appears that all his life he has imagined himself the hero of the most impossible adventures. He was always telling hair raising yarns, wherein he was the main participant in some high-flying escapade. He seems to have carried this characteristic to the death's cell. He is shown by craftily imagined scheme to ward off all pain of hanging my filling his ears with wadding.

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Armand Vallee, 1926 (via 50 Watts)

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Armand Vallee - 100 francs par mois? (n.d.)

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Poisson d'avril: un joli cadeau à faire a une enfant. [un défet de] "La Vie Parisienne". Dessinateurs et humoristes. Armand Vallée [défets d'illustrations de périodiques], 1923-1930. | src BnF

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"Le Complot" (The conspiracy) by Armand Vallee

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Armand Vallée, Ce Qu'on Ne Verra Jamais ... (What We Will Never See), La Vie Parisienne, 1921.

Today there is a strike by the dancers and no-one dances.

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Armand Vallée (Canadian, 1921-2009)

Illustration “The First of April” for “La Vie Parisienne” Magazine ,1923

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Armand Vallée Le Tennis des Demoiselles 1923

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Illustration by Armand Vallée, 1920s.