Le Dauphine Libere [Back to summary]
- Was a young Lyon man's title of nobility obtained through forged records?, article published on May 3, 2023.
Excerpt:
"The publication of the documents on the internet will cause Marc Cheynet de Beaupre's story to collapse like a house of cards. The digitization of the Ardeche Departmental Archives is scheduled for 2011, and the specialist sees the moment approaching when someone may realize that the documents available online, which are the duplicate copies of those kept in the town halls, do not match."
Revue francaise de Genealogie [Back to summary]
- Defamation, genealogy and archives before the Paris Court of Appeal, article published on September 26, 2021.
- An extraordinary genealogical case still before the courts, article published on September 26, 2021.
- A string of lawsuits in an extraordinary genealogical case, article in issue 257 of the Revue francaise de genealogie (December 2021 - January 2022).
- The Rochemaure civil-record forgery case (continued), article published on November 27, 2021.
- Forged genealogy: another court defeat for Marc Cheynet de Beaupre, article published on September 29, 2022.
Excerpt:
"This is not the case at the town hall, which is left with civil records that are partly mutilated or forged, creating an absurd situation for the genealogist, who will not find the same records depending on whether research is carried out on site or on the internet. It is also a painful situation for the Cheynet de Beaupre family, around fifty people today, who, if they take an interest in their origins, may discover on their computer screen that their name and family history are the result of deception."
Geneanet [Back to summary]
- The Cheynet de Beaupre case continues: a new trial, article published on September 11, 2020.
- The Cheynet de Beaupre case: hearing report, article published on October 2, 2020.
Article in Marianne [Back to summary]
A two-page article in the magazine Marianne, dated November 2, 2018:
Excerpts:
"On November 5, 1985, the Public Prosecutor in Privas corrected this 'error' on the strength of their family tree. The entire family was renamed 'Cheynet de Beaupre', with the exception of uncles Pierre and Luc and their children, who preferred to remain Cheynet. Armed with this new identity, Marc Cheynet de Beaupre then infiltrated fashionable associations. Having become a respectable Macron supporter, he made a good impression in castle society. He was accepted into the Order of Malta and, in 1988, knocked on the very closed door of the Society of the Cincinnati."
"In 2011, a denunciation reached the A.N.F.: the documents were said to be forged. The association sent professional genealogists. It was not disappointed, since the Cheynet de Beaupre 'recognition of nobility' records had been falsified, crossed out, and contained different handwritings."
"For Jean-Marc Blanc, a former expert genealogist who met him in the 1990s, he is a man caught in his own trap: 'He tampered with his mother's birth record in Corsica,' he says. 'She is not a baroness, nor descended from the dukes of La Rochefoucauld, her father was not a cavalry colonel, nor a baron of the Holy Roman Empire, nor a First Class Iron Cross recipient. She was the illegitimate daughter of an Italian shoemaker who emigrated to Australia. We have only just found her death record.'"
"On March 29 of this year, Rochemaure Town Hall had a bailiff record that all civil records present in the municipal archives and bearing the name 'Cheynet de Beaupre' are forged. It filed a complaint against persons unknown with the Public Prosecutor in Privas in order to have them invalidated."
Book: Enquete sur la noblesse [Back to summary]
The book Enquete sur la noblesse, La permanence aristocratique by Eric Mension-Rigau, published by Perrin, was released on March 7, 2019.
Excerpts (pages 49 to 51):
"The persistence of a vain attraction to nobility was illustrated in the 1980s by a particularly stubborn forger, Marc Cheynet, born in 1963, who succeeded in tampering with his paternal ancestry by using forged records and confusion between namesakes, in order to become 'Marc Cheynet de Beaupre'. [...]
The first step was the Bottin mondain, whose 1983 edition saw the first appearance of Jean-Marc Cheynet de Beaupre, husband of Madame, born Marie-Angele Pustianaz, the parents of the individual concerned, together with their five children. [...]
Second step: the Society of the Cincinnati in France [...] A first admission was obtained in 1987 for Bertrand Cheynet de Beaupre, the father's elder cousin, falsely attached to an officer named Cheynet de Saint-Amans [...]. Then, in 1988, the individual himself was admitted [...]. Finally, in 1991, another admission was recorded with Jean-Jacques Cheynet de Beaupre, [...]
Third step, the Association de la noblesse francaise: the general assembly of June 9, 1989 ratified the admission of this false family on the basis of forged documents suggesting descent from a Vivarais family, Cheynet, seigneur de Beaupre [...]
Fourth step: the Etat present de la noblesse francaise subsistante, the authoritative work by Michel Authier and Albert Galbrun, included in its eighteenth volume, published in December 1990, an eight-page notice on the 'Cheynet de Beaupre' family. [...]
Last and supreme feat: in 1991, the individual managed to gain admission to the Jockey Club [...]"