About Chasse Diable

Some Numbers

Decades: 6
Continents: 5
Languages: 4
Offspring: 3
Nationalities: 2
Spouses: 1

Some pleasures

Old trees, new gardens
Old music, new tunes
Old science, new perspectives
Old architecture, new buildings
Old literature, new books
Old ingredients, new recipes
Old cinema, new story lines

Some treasures

Family, privacy, and a sense of history and place.

This website is authored by a real person raised in the US Pacific Northwest near Seattle. He was educated in the natural sciences and is fascinated by the natural world. He has no beliefs in a supernatural world. He values learning from people of other places and times. He's horrified by people with misguided and craven motivations, and he sees that group growing in the world.

Chasse-diable is a French name for a medicinal herb, Hypericum perforatum. There are many other names for the herb including Saint John's Wort or Johanneskraut. The French name can be translated as "devil hunter" or "hunt the devil". I like that name because "hunt" is an active verb and the action is aimed at bad actors.

In the interest of privacy, some of the material here is posted behind a wall. To gain access, which is intended only for friends and family, you may email admin@chassediable.com. There is no fee but the site machinery calls member access a "subscription".