![]() In her trilogy City of Secrets, The Portal and The Stone Cradle, Patrice opens the door to entirely new and compelling elements of the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery involving the enigmatic Catalan capital of Girona. ![]() Married to Charlie Chaplin's son, Michael, and living and working in Hollywood, she was friends with everyone from Lauren Bacall and Miles Davis, to Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau, who gave her a starring role in one of his films. As a Bohemian in Paris during the 50s and 60s, Patrice spent time with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Her stage play From the Balcony was commissioned by London's National Theatre in conjunction with Radio 3. Her most notable works include Albany Park, Siesta (which was made into a film starring Jodi Foster and Isabella Rossellini), Into the Darkness Laughing, Hidden Star, Night Fishing and Death Trap. PATRICE CHAPLIN is an internationally renowned author and playwright who has published more than two dozen books. This new edition features an Afterword in which Patrice reviews the impact of the book's publication on her life, on Girona and its mysteries. Patrice Chaplin's modern classic is a page-turning, true-life adventure, rich with photographs, remarkable letters and antique documents. The astonishing result is City of Secrets. It is time, they say, to present some of their closely guarded secrets to the world. The people she has known for so many years, including Jose, belong to a secret society that guards Sauniere's legacy. The rich priest was none other than the Abbe Sauniere of Rennes-le-Chateau, and the mysteries surrounding him are at the very heart of the modern Grail legend - the stuff of bestselling novels and movies, historical analysis and esoteric intrigue. Cast as the detective in her own story, she finds herself caught up in a world she barely knew existed. She meets captivating characters and hears about visions, a strangely wealthy priest, a fabulous garden owned by a Frenchwoman. When she falls in love with the place she also falls for its charismatic leader.Īs the years pass and the girl becomes a woman, she returns again and again to Girona and to her lover, the enigmatic Jose Tarres. Specifically, the ironically un-American activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and its witchfinder general Joe McCarthy.It is 1955 and a fifteen-year-old girl, seeking adventure, escapes the greyness of post-war London for the cobbles, sunshine and romance of an ancient Catalan city. But it was activity in Washington, D.C., that would really doom the Tramp. What remained of his reputation in America was shredded. Despite medical tests that proved he wasn't the father, reported the Evening Independent, Barry won her case, and Chaplin was forced to pay out for a kid that was scientifically proven to belong to someone else. He was eventually acquitted, but the establishment was gunning for his blood.Ĭhaplin was sued by Barry for paternity payments. Chaplin was arrested for "immoral purposes" under the Mann Act, having allegedly taken Barry across state lines before seducing her. But, emboldened by rising anti-Communist feeling in America, this time the establishment pounced. Previously, this would have stayed in the tabloids. In 1944, Charlie Chaplin's personal life again exploded in a mess of seedy allegations, this time for supposedly impregnating and dumping actress Joan Barry. Charlie would wind up spending so much of his childhood in the workhouse that he only ever received six months' schooling, as per The Guardian. did briefly agree to take the boys in, but it didn't last (via the Charlie Chaplin website). Charlie and his brother got chucked into the workhouse, which was exactly as Dickensian as it sounds. This being Victorian London, the "social safety net" was something tramps caught fish with. As she and the children continued on in poverty, she drifted further from reality. It quickly became clear that Hannah's voice issue was just the first outward sign of the demons consuming her. Instead, it was the beginning of his mother's descent into madness. In a kinder world, this moment would be the beginning of Charlie's career. In what feels like the opening for a feel-good movie, young Charlie knocked everyone's socks off. The manager panicked and shoved Charlie out. According to Biography, Hannah was halfway through a song when she suddenly lost her voice. It happened during one of Hannah Chaplin's performances, while Charlie watched from the wings.
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