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Subject: Architect
Date: Monday October 3, 1998 05:08:28 +0000
From: Catherine Camus
To: Jérôme Camus

While I was consulting mom's address books, I found many insertions for an architect Bernard ZEMB: in the USA, in France and in Austria. Mom went to these countries. Was he a student or a professor?

I decided to write him, and ask if he was part of the circle of friends of Bernadette and Paul. Tonight, he called. He was not shocked at my question, quite the contrary.

In fact, he knew Bernadette in '54-'55, having studied only one year at Harvard. Maybe he met me, but being so long ago...

He never met Paul Machotka.

Mom spent a lot of time in university circles, possibly to meet French persons. Also to find some stability in her personal life, because she was only 26 (the same as B. Zemb). He remembers a joyful woman, who did not speak much of her life, but that, he believes, was looking for herself.

Every year, the university organized a big party where each nationality set up their own pavilion. That year, they had chosen the port of Camaret. He says he has a photograph of her taken after a nuit de charrette (it is architect talk - I will explain later). He will send me a copy.

In 1978, he and his wife met our mother, by chance, in Austria. Bernadette had told him that she was looking for a young man. Was it Paul? He said that she wanted to go to Czechoslovakia, but had no visa. B. ZEMB asked me if Paul was Czech.

That is the story of the architect.

Catherine