Remembering Jean-Gwinn Riboud (1950-2025)
Remembering Jean-Gwinn Riboud (1950-2025) Editor's Note: It was with great regret that I was unable to personally attend the June 12, 2025 Benediction in Paris that memorialized the [...]
The Riboud Family during World War II
After the German Army entered Paris on June 21, 1940, the Riboud family fled occupied France for Baltimore, Maryland, Nancy Riboud's childhood home in the United States. Nancy first left for Portugal with her young daughters Chesley and Betsy, and her infant daughter Olivia. Nancy's husband Jacques soon followed, meeting them in Serta, Portugal before sailing on the SS Excalibur for New York.
France 2022
With the pandemic and lockdown fading fast in the rear view mirror, I proposed to my son Pat that he join me in visiting our cousins in France this summer.
Olivia Riboud on Her Riboud and Gwinn Parents and Grandparents
In the spring of 2023, Olivia Cosgrave Riboud discussed her family history with her first cousin Bill Bowe.
Jean Paul de la Chapelle on the de la Chapelle Family
Jean Paul de la Chapelle In June 2023, I had a chance to talk with Jean Paul de la Chapelle (JPD) who was at his home in Neuville sur Saône, a suburb just outside Lyon, France. Our goal [...]
1991 Nancy Gwinn Riboud (1911-1991)
1991 Nancy Gwinn Riboud (1911-1991) Editor's Note: Nancy Gwinn, my mother's sister, married Jacques Riboud in 1933, nine years before I was born. Though she and Jacques raised their five children in France, I remember meeting the Riboud family [...]
1997 Livie Riboud Gives Bill Bowe a Tour of 46 Avenue Ramon Poincare
1997 Livie Riboud Gives Bill Bowe a Tour of 46 Avenue Ramon Poincare in Paris In March, 1997, I took time out from a business trip to Europe for Encyclopaedia Britannica to visit the Riboud family. On [...]
1989 Visiting Nancy and Jacques Riboud at 14 Avenue Georges Mandel with Jean Paul de la Chapelle
1989 Visiting Nancy and Jacques Riboud at 14 Avenue Georges Mandel with Jean Paul de la Chapelle In February, 1989 Jean Paul de la Chapelle and I had a chance to visit with Jacques and Nancy Riboud at [...]
1989 Ribouds and Lacombes Dine at Vieux Moulin, France
1989 The Ribouds and Lacombes Dining at Vieux Moulin, France Editor's Note: During my May 1989 visit with the Ribouds in Vieux Moulin, Betsy Riboud Lacombe and her husband Henry and their daughter Sophia joined Jacques, Nancy, Live, Jean [...]
