POTTER United Families

One day, in the context of the above research on Louis de Potter,
prof. Marijcke Schillings contacted us. She is a Dutch expert in the
History of arts in the 18th Century, author of a book about the
companion of Louis de Potter in Italy, Matilde Malenchini-Meoni.
She brought us in contact with Yvonne de Potter said d’Elseghem
(94) in New-York. When I called, she said that she was a daughter of
Victor Armand de Potter, married to the daughter of Belgian General
van den Hende, working in the circles of Lafayette (friend of Louis)
and Napoleon III. Yvonne was the grand-daughter of Pierre Armand
de Potter, son of Victor, senior businessman and teacher in Boston,
organizing “grand tours” for VIP’s in Europe’s most beautiful castles.
She then showed me their family logbook and books published in
New-York by revolution hero Louis, with comments in the margins
written by the hand of Louis, whose handwriting I compared to my
own samples and did recognize.
The conservative man shows the way out to a
“natural child”. Not the family de Potter.
When I received her letter, with by the book she edited for her
daughter, Joanna Scott, I cried like a child who had finally found “a
truth” about the hidden history of Louis de Potter and his said natural
son, a Belgian -Parisian personality, Victor Louis Armand! The
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