LES DAMNES DE LA RUSSIE
Le déplacement de populations comme méthode de gouvernement
(THE DAMNED OF RUSSIA)
The displacement of populations as a method of government.
Georg publisher, Geneva, 2002.
The history of displacements of populations in Russia, in Siberia, in Central Asia, Caucasus and Crimea, starting from the times of Ivan the Terrible until the second world war. The deportation of the Russian peasants, of the Old Believers, the Polish and the Tatars.
Half of this book is dedicated to the exodus of the Circassians and the Chechens in the XIXth century and to their installation in the Ottoman Empire. I have written this book with the help of archives, historical and ethnographical texts that I have translated from russian language. I also refer to my interviews with Circassians and Chechens that I met in Syria and in Jordan in 1977 during my investigations about the Caucasians living in the Near Est area. This book contains also interesting accounts about the role of David Urquhardt “the Lawrence of Caucasus “ as I call him.

JEAN MARTIN COMPAGNON TAILLEUR DE PIERRE.
(JEAN MARTIN STONE CUTTER )
Dervy Publisher, Paris, 2002.
Second edition of this book already published in 1981 by Le Rocher publisher. The itinerary of Jean Martin “compagnon tailleur de pierre”. In France, the ”compagnons “are the members (having received an intitiation) of a guild of masons specialized in works on churches , cathedrals, castles and other historical constructions. I met Jean Martin in 1976, in a remote part of Iran located in the North West, near the borders of Russia and Turkey, while he was restoring an old Armenian Church with the help of Kurdish workers, on behalf of the UNESCO.
The story goes from his native Val de Loire to his “Tour of France”, his task as the Provost of the House of the Companions in Paris until his last mission in Haïti where he restaured the fortress of King Christophe an ancient slave who originated the independence of this country. In the mean time he had spent five years in Iran and several months in Syria on a mission to explore ancient churches in this country.

LA MONTAGNE DU SANG. Histoire, récits et coutumes des peuples montagnards du Caucase.
THE BLOODY MOUNTAIN. History , tales and customs of the mountaineers of Caucasus.
Georg publisher, Geneva, 1998.
A panorama of the people of the Caucasus: Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, Chechens, Ingushs, the various people of Daghestan (Koumiks, Avars, Lesghis). Half of this book is about the history of the conquest of the Caucasus by the Russians and about the resistance of the mountaineers.

LE SIEGE DE PEKIN.
THE SIEGE OF PEKIN.
Favre publisher, Lausanne, Swiss, 1989.
This is the relation of the events which occured in 1900 during the revolt of the Boxers. This book was based on notes and archives which were found in the family of Theophile Piry, a French man who spent more than twenty years in China. At the time of this uprising he had the rank of mandarin and he spoke and wrote the chinese language fluently.

ETRANGE CAUCASE. (Récits et coutumes).
STRANGE CAUCASUS ( tales and customs)
Fayard Publisher, Paris, 1978.
Contents: The Circassians, the war in the Caucasus, Vladicaucase, the Kazbek road, Georgia, the Caucasian Riviera, Bakou.
This book was distinguished by the famous academician Georges Dumezil who helped the author to become a member of the “Asiatic Society” in 1979.

CHRONIQUES DE TEHERAN D’AVANT LA REVOLUTION ISLAMIQUE.
CHRONICLES OF TEHRAN BEFORE THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.
( This book that I have just finished in March 2007 is not yet published and is waiting for his editor).
It is based on conversations that I had with remarkable persons that I met in Iran between 1972 and 1978.
A gallery of portraits of French, Iranians, Russian and other foreign diplomats, among them: iranian officials victims of the Savak( the Shah secret police,) K.G.B. agents, counsellors of embassies, an old reporter of the France Press Agency who came in Iran in 1945, an iranian musician who played guitar in a jazz band in the cellars of Saint Germain des Prés in Paris just after the second world war.