StatsBirth Name: Eugène Bonaventure Jean-Baptiste Vigo Born: 8 January 1883 Died: 20 August 1917 Born and residing in:  Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Relationship Status: In a relationship Partner: Émily Cléro
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Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo was descended from the magistrate of Andorra (that small principality in the Pyrenees). Eugene was sick but handsome: he had the ravaged look of a romantic consumptive. And he had the flamboyant career to go with it; as a young man, he became known in Paris as a dangerous anarchist. He had a job as a photographer, but it was said that he was more interested in the development chemicals as a way of making a bomb. He was imprisoned briefly in 1900 for stealing from the p
Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo was descended from the magistrate of Andorra (that small principality in the Pyrenees). Eugene was sick but handsome: he had the ravaged look of a romantic consumptive. And he had the flamboyant career to go with it; as a young man, he became known in Paris as a dangerous anarchist. He had a job as a photographer, but it was said that he was more interested in the development chemicals as a way of making a bomb. He was imprisoned briefly in 1900 for stealing from the photographic firm that employed him, and he changed his name to Miguel Almereyda (he rejoiced in the anagram of "merde" in this name).
His only son -the future filmmaker Jean Vigo- was the offspring of a liaison between Almereyda (still only 20) and Emily Clero, older and herself a militant anarchist. Emily had had children by another man, a sculptor, but apparently only one child survived - and she was crippled from having fallen out of a window. Vigo was born in a wretched attic, surrounded by hungry cats. It was the start of a chaotic childhood. Almereyda became celebrated as an insurrectionary journalist, but he was in prison on several occasions and, when at liberty, had a string of mistresses. The boy adored his father, but saw too little of him. In 1917, when Almereyda had offended every powerful figure in France, young Vigo bought his father a present of bootlaces just before he was sent back to prison.
What happened is not clear. Almereyda was suffering serious stomach pains (it proved to be peritonitis). In August of 1917, he was moved from La Sante prison to Fresnes, and it was there that he was murdered, strangled by his own bootlaces.
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