History Crush: Yvonne Fournier

Jadi dalam rangka HUT RI tahun ini, I present you a post about my latest crush of the month. Mungkin agak nggak nyambung karena Yvonne Fournier bukan pahlawan nasional. Dan suaminya, Westerling, sama sekali tidak memiliki imej baik bagi kebanyakan rakyat Indonesia karena dikenal berdarah dingin. A war criminal. But I still want to post it anyway cause I think she's pretty.

Ia dikenal sebagai istri Raymond Westerling, seorang komandan pasukan Belanda yang dikecam Indonesia karena ia bertanggung jawab atas meninggalnya ribuan warga Sulawesi Selatan dalam Pembantaian Westerling pada Desember 1946-Februari 1947, juga percobaan kudeta Angkatan Perang Ratu Adil di Jawa Barat pada 23 Januari 1950.

Here's some link about how devil Westerling is.

• Westerling, the Dutch's Hitler
• Westerling Finally Smiling
• Westerling's Wife been Caught
• Westerling's War

Anyway. Yvonne Fournier adalah blasteran Indonesia-Perancis dan menikah dengan Wseterling pada tahun 40an. Ini kutipan artikel dari The Jakarta Post yang dapat menjelaskan sedikit dari kehidupan Yvonne.

Once back in the Netherlands, Westerling settled down with his Indonesian–French wife, Yvonne Fournier, in a small town in the state of Friesland. Their first child, Celia Veldhuis, born in 1948 in West Java, says the ghosts of war continued to haunt him.

“Father had to work through his war experiences during our childhood, though he never spoke a word about those times,” the soft-spoken Veldhuis recalls. “There was no support, no counseling like there is now. He always had headaches, probably from the shrapnel still lodged in his skull. He slept badly. He drank a lot from time to time.”

Money was tight, and they lived in a small house. Veldhuis describes Westerling as “restless and erratic, yet also warm and caring”.

“When my mother was taking courses to become a hairdresser, he was the one who took care of the household: washing, cooking, taking care of the children,” she says.

Not much information I can get through human's favorite search engine though. I wish I could find some other information about her. She looks lovely.