#lechi

Two portraits of Francesca Lechi

1. By Giovanni Battista Gigola, 1800

2. By Andrea Appiani, 1803

Francesca Lechi was involved in Napoleonic events in Italy, such as the Revolution in Brescia, which took place when Napoleon’s army entered the region in 1797. She met Joachim Murat at a ball, and the two had an affair. She even followed him to Paris, until her husband wrote to Napoleon complaining of the situation. She was active in political events, procuring the fabric used for the tricolor flag hoisted on the Broletto in Brescia.

Stendhal, in Vie de Napoléon, said of her:

“Countess Gherardi, daughter of Count Lecchi, had perhaps the most beautiful eyes in Brescia, the land of beautiful eyes. She added to all her father’s genius a gentle cheerfulness, a real simplicity, which was never altered.”

It is difficult at times to counter Arab falsification of history.  Other times, a bit of research will solve the difficulty.

For example,

here,

where it is claimed:

The Deir Yassin massacre followed in 1948. A join contingent, containing the Tsel, Irgun, and Haganah, assaulted the 600-person village near Jerusalem. A cistern alone was found to contain 150 mutilating bodies and the full death toll remains unknown. Irgun leader Menachem Begin falsified the Red Cross’s reports, ironically labelling it the fabrication by anti-Semites. [3]

Well, I went to

the source quoted

.

There, on page 297, I found this:

How could he falsify the reports of the Red Cross? Did the writer mean he misrepresented them? Or that he quoted from them what they did not contain? So I went to Begin's memoir as Commander of the Irgun, The Revolt, and on page 164 I found this footnote: