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Oct 14, 2018 · Micheline Resco (1894–1968) was a Romanian-born, Parisian portrait artist best known as the mistress and then second wife of John J. Pershing, Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War.
This collection contains letters, telegrams, photographs, greeting cards, event memorabilia, speech typescripts, and clippings, as well as financial and legal papers documenting the romantic relationship of General John J. Pershing and Micheline Resco from their meeting in 1917 until the general’s death in 1948.
Oct 5, 1986 · A discreet man, Pershing usually wrote his letters on plain paper or hotel or shipboard stationery, and sent his cables in code. A sample went like this: CHELINER. AURORA VELOURS. BEATRICE....
This collection contains letters, telegrams, photographs, greeting cards, event memorabilia, speech typescripts, and clippings, as well as financial and legal papers documenting Pershing and Resco’s romantic relationship from their meeting in 1917 until the general’s death in 1948.
Aug 1, 2018 · A copy of the letter General John Pershing asked be delivered to his wife Micheline Resco after his death in 1948. Pershing had written the letter in the 1920’s, a few years after the couple had first met in France during World War I. After his death, Pershing also left behind a small locket.
Before leaving for Europe, Pershing also had a passionate romance with George Patton's sister, Anne. But once he was in France, Pershing fell madly in love with a young painter named Micheline Resco, whom he later married in secret.
Nov 9, 2017 · In 1946, at 85, Pershing secretly wed French-Romanian portrait artist Micheline Resco in his Walter Reed Hospital apartment. Resco was 35 years his junior. The couple met in Paris in 1917 when Pershing arrived to command troops and exchanged love letters over 30 years.
