Monastery of Tismana founded on the domain of Florea by Radu the Ist, prince of Wallachia, and his wife Ana, a relative (sister) of Florea. The result is a fascinating Florescu saga - one you can discover below. Thanks to Matei Cazacu, an esteemed medievalist from the Sorbonne in Paris, and an editor/author from Washington DC, the enterprise began anew high up in the Transylvanian Alps, just five miles up from where many of the Florescu archives lay in Brasov. Alas, the authors never found it, so the book had to be rewritten a second time.
Dogged by Dracula’s cursed and mysterious hand, Professor Florescu suffered the unfortunate occurrence of the outright disappearance of the typed manuscript (only one version) somewhere between Boston and the French Riviera. Drawn from Dracula’s mystic universe, the process of writing the book met all kinds of misfortune and difficulties, starting at its first drafting in 2009 and ending three years later in various misadventures. When the 1953 Corvette first appeared to the public at the Waldorf Historia Hotel, the redesigned emblems were in place.Dracula’s Bloodline represents the authors’ attempt to accurately narrate centuries of a unique family history in one, single book. They decided to use the fleur-de-lis along with the famous blue Chevrolet bow tie on a new flag which replaced the American flag on the Corvette. Unfortunately, they came up empty, but they did realize that Chevrolet is a French name and the fleur-de-lis (flower of the lily) is a French symbol meaning peace and purity. They looked at the Louis Chevrolet family history in an attempt to discover a crest or some type of heraldry that they could utilize.
Where did the fleur-de-lis come from? At the time, Chevrolet was conducting research on various emblem designs for the 19 passenger cars. The new emblem contained the checkered flag on the right side as well as the white racing flag, red Chevrolet bow-tie symbol and a fleur-de-lis (Figure 2). Right before the show, redesigned emblems were attached to the front hood and steering wheel of the Corvette. The problem with the proposed emblem was that it included the American flag which is illegal to use on a commerical product. However, four days before the Corvette was to go on display at the show, Chevrolet management decided that it should be redesigned. It had crossing staffs with the checkered flag on the right hand side, and the American flag on the left hand side. This emblem was destined to appear on the 1953 Corvette prototype which was introduced to the public for the first time at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel in January of 1953. The original Corvette logo (Figure 1) was designed by Robert Bartholomew, an interior designer at Chevrolet in 1953.
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