ok ards me old mucker check this out ;DPhilip LeMarchand (1717 - ?)
( Biography excerpted from "Tucker's Encyclopedia of Mass Murderers" )
Philip LeMarchand was a French architect, artisan, and designer who is posthumously credited as
possibly one of the most prolific, if undiscovered, mass murderers in the history of the modern world.
He first became known for his creation of bizarre, intricately designed music boxes
which quickly became the rage of Europe.
The boxes, known in some circles as LeMarchand Boxes, were each one of a kind creations which were also puzzles, with the answer to one's ultimate hearts desire as their solution.
At the height of his career, Paris was besieged by scandalous multiple disappearances of noteworthy individuals, a number of whom had purchased LeMarchand's puzzle boxes.
Suspicions, though unconfirmed, fell upon the sculptor / architect, especially inasmuch as LeMarchand's apprentice, the son of a respected clock maker, was one of the first to disappear.
Amidst this notoriety, LeMarchand fled Europe without selling his home. Apparently certain that the authorities were closing in on him, LeMarchand discarded his already floundering career.
"Philip LeMarchand, at the height of his career, Painted this self portrait allegedly using not oil, but human fat as it's base. The original disappeared in World War II."
The exact charges which would have been brought against him are unknown, for most legal records regarding LeMarchand were either expunged after his disappearance, or destroyed in the early part of World War Two. LeMarchand, like Moses the lawgiver found his name struck from most records.
The Legend
In certain circles, the name LeMarchand is synonymous with dread and horror. This "architect of the damned" served agents far more sinister than those served by Hitler's own architect, Albert Speer. The atrocities performed by LeMarchand made him one of France's most infamous figures, rivaled only by the DeVincouer family and Gilles de Rais (who had a profound effect on Lemarchand's own courting of what he called the "Lords of Order")
Almost all of the information we have is based on rumor and speculation.
Nearly all his architectural creations were destroyed during World War II, and very few records remain documenting the events in his life.
We do know that he was educated at the Academie Royale de Pienture et Sculpture in Paris in the early seventeen hundreds, that he was a Freemason, that he moved to New York to pursue "more loftier pursuits than the mundane and oppressive tedium of a drafting table," that he later entered a competition to design the President's House, and that he had a devoted interest in the occult.
It is this association between Philip LeMarchand and the occult, that has resulted in his infamy. It was LeMarchand's interest in the supernatural which directly influenced the creation of his multitude of highly sought after puzzle boxes, which are rumored to either reveal great secrets and pleasures when solved, or death and the atrocities of Hell, depending on who you listen to.
Until now, the best references we had on LeMarchand and his works were two articles by Valentina Sprague ("Architect of the Damned," Pentacle, June 1967; "Leviathan's White House" Pentacle, February 1975) one of which posed the question of what would have happened had LeMarchand been commissioned as the architect of the White House, since this would have followed the creation of his puzzle boxes. The other article was an attempt to re-create the events which brought Leviathan's material into LeMarchand's possession.
In the Autumn of 2007, The Unknown Box was received by the Pyramid-Gallery from an anonymous donor. It arrived in the mail without fanfare, wrapped in pages from the Arabic newspaper Al-Wasat.
Taped to the top of the box was a brief note that said simply:
"Take it, I have lost too much already. But do not be tempted. Sad are only those who understand."
Two years of intensive research have made clear the following – absolutely nothing is known about the history of this box. It has never been auctioned or sold anywhere in the world that we can yet discover. It has no chapter in LeMarchand's Dreams, an eighteenth century tome which catalogs the early works that LeMarchand produced in France, nor does it appear in any of the other LeMarchand reference materials that we have, and we have access to many.
Ards this box if im not mistaken is in the HELLRAZER films
www.pyramid-gallery.com/UnknownBox.html