Vera Moore Pianist From Dunedin to Jouy-En-Josas

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Originally from Dunedin New Zealand Vera Moore acquired an international reputation as a concert pianist between 1920 and 1930.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When war broke out Miss Moore was spending summer at her country cottage in Chandon on the Loire believing it to be safer there than in London. After fleeing from occupied France all trace of her was lost causing great concern among friends in New Zealand and England. Christophe Baillat gives a gripping account of her escape from Chandon and her life as a refugee in unoccupied France. News finally reached England through a friend in Tangier that Vera Moore was safe in a small village in France's unoccupied zone.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 242 238 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Christophe Baillat has written about Victor Hugo and Nadar Oberkampf the Toile de Jouy and Marcel Arland. He has played a major role in the literary activities of the Syndicat d'lnitiative intercommunale Jouy-en-Josas. Vera Moore Pianiste de Dunedin d Jouy-en-Josas is the first literary work to be dedicated to the pianist.</span></p>