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The CNN 1907 Yearbook lists the following members as Founding members
of the club (and still members in 1906):
- Édouard Beri (Nice) - Merchant, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Nice;
- Adolphe Gastaldi (Nice);
- Victor-Eugène Gauthier (Nice) - Printer;
- Henri Giordan (Nice) - Merchant;
- Armand Juge (Paris / Nice);
- Louis Labeye (Nice);
- Joseph-Guillaume Maurel (Nice) - Vice-President of the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes;
- Auguste Montolivo (Nice);
- Franck Pilatte (Nice) - Lawyer;
- Adolphe Pommateau (Toulon), on leave;
- Jean Régis (Nice) - General Agent of the Urbaine company;
- Pascal Roux - Inspector of the Compagnie Générale du Gaz.
The CNN 1907 Yearbook shows the private signal of the Founding members detailed in the next sections.
Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
![[Gauthier's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~gt.gif)
Gauthier's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
Victor-Eugène Gauthier, a printer and a casual poet, published medical works such as the Nice Médical review (1876-1901) and Cesare Mattei's Médecine électro-homéopathique ou nouvelle thérapeutique expérimentale (1883). Gauthier published also the Bulletin de la section des Alpes-Maritimes du Club Alpin Français; the local section of the prestigious wintersports club was presided from 1900-1932 by Knight Victor de Cessole (1859-1941), who promoted alpinism and ski in the Alpes-Maritimes and was admitted into the CNN in 1898.
Gauthier is listed as the owner of the picoteux Rafale (1 ton).
A picoteux was a small sailboat used until the 1960s in Normandy for coastal fishing.
Gauthier's private signal is a white triangular flag with a blue
horizontal stripe over a red vertical stripe.
Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
![[Maurel's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~ma.gif)
Maurel's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
Joseph-Guillaume Maurel served as Vice-President of the CNN in 1888-1909, and was, subsequently, appointed Honorary President.
Maurel is listed as the owner of the xebec Épreuve. A xebec (aka zebec; in French, chébec) was a Mediterranean three-masted ship used by corsairs and traders.
Maurel's private signal is white with a black Poseidon's trident
placed along the descending diagonal and flanked by a blue star in the
upper fly and a red star in the lower hoist.
Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
![[Montolivo's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~mo.gif)
Montolivo's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
Auguste Montilovo is listed as the owner of the houari cutter
Folichon (1 ton). Houari cutters, named after a type of sail, were used in the beginning of the 20th century for fishing in northern Brittany. Once a popular racing and leisure keelboat, the houari cutter was superseded in the 1910s by the Star.
Montolivo's private signal is white with a thin blue border, the red
eagle of Nice in the middle and three black olives - most probably canting for the owner's name - in canton.
Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
![[Pilatte's flag]](../images/f/fr-06~pi.gif)
Pilatte's private signal - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010
Franck Pilatte (1855-1917), a lawyer and nationalist politician, presided the local section of Paul Déroulède's Ligue des Patriotes (Patriots' League); he wrote several poems and chronicles deploring the moral decay of Nice.
President and, subsequently, Honorary President of the CNN, Pilatte is
listed as the owner of the cutter Gabrielle (ex Silver Fish, 10 tons). His name was given to the boulevard where the club is located
today.
Pilatte's private signal is a blue triangular flag with a white
vertical stripe over a red horizontal stripe.
Ivan Sache, 18 May 2010