Alexandre du Chayla

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Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla (born March 25, 1885 in Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz ; died in 1947 in La Tour-en-Faucigny ) was a French nobleman .

Life

Du Chayla was born as a descendant of a Catholic noble family in Lyon . After he is said to have converted to the Orthodox Church around 1905 , he traveled to Russia in 1909 and settled in the Optina Pustyn Monastery . Sergei Nilus also lived here at the same time . Du Chayla later claimed that he was the true editor of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion after receiving a corresponding manuscript from Pyotr Ratschkowski , the head of the foreign branch of the Russian secret service Okhrana .

Until 1920 du Chayla led an eventful life mainly in Russia, took part in the Russian Civil War, was arrested in 1920 and was about to be executed. Under adventurous circumstances he was released and returned to Lyon. From this time there are descriptions that describe you Chayla as an anti-Semite and opponent of the Freemasons . Apparently, his attitude later changed, as he was said to have spoken out against fascism and anti-Semitism in the twenties and thirties and was alleged to have been a member of a Masonic lodge.

On October 29, 1934, he appeared as a witness for the plaintiffs in the Bern trial . In his expertise entitled Souvenirs sur SA Nilus et les origines des 'Protocoles des Sages de Sion' (1909-1920) , which was largely identical to his memoirs published in 1921 , he claimed that Sergei Nilus had initiated the true origin of the protocols to have become.

However, much of du Chayla's biographical data is controversial, especially the truthfulness of his statements during the Bern trial.

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SURNAME You Chayla, Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Du Chayla, Armand Alexandre de Blanquet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz
DATE OF DEATH 1947
Place of death La Tour-en-Faucigny