Gilles Mendel
speaker
690 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
Gilles Mendel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He would come with maybe a poem from Baudelaire or something.
He would come out with, it was insane.
You know, the man was kind of a special guy.
Is it true he was decorated after the war by Mitterrand and...
He got a medal.
Yes, he was decorated.
I mean, how they met, I'm not sure.
I mean, they met through family.
You know, in those days, you know, my mother had many brothers.
And, you know, they had, when you had to meet, if you met some, my dad, in order to meet her, had to meet all the brothers.
She couldn't go out without the six brothers behind her going.
They met in Paris.
I mean, that's where they met.
And during the war, after the war, they just met right after the war.
Oh, really?
No, I don't recall that.
No.
Yeah, I mean, you know, from, you know, 1870, you know, from Nicholas II, where I'm sure they had, you know, the Jews were, as you know, during that time in the late 19th century, you know, they were kind of segregated in some areas of Russia.
I mean, it was, you know, I think it was called the Pelset settlement.
You know, it was an area between Belarus and Ukraine.
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