Testimonial letter from Paul Bironneau

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This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.

This letter is from Paul Bironneau. It is "Exhibit A-1239" in the Noles collection.

The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.

UAP séquanaise
Caisses de Retraite
et de Prévoyance
Paul BIRONNEAU
80, rue Armand Silvestre
92400 Courbevoie
TeI.: 334-09-90
PARIS , July 15th 1983

To Whom it may concern ;

"As Paul Bironneau , producer in insurances for U.A.P Company, I would like to certify my acknoledgemen of BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH as a great and true religious master.

His work is now better and better known in our country as well as the rest of Europe, and it is, certainly, a great honour for any country to receive such a master."

Very sincerely yours,
[signed]
imp. UAP92 Courbevoie mod.39744 04 83

l'UAP incendle-accidents
s.a. au capital de 500 000 000 F
entièrement versé
rcs Paris B 777 349 192

l'UAP vle
s.a. au capital de 165 000 000 F
entièrement versé
rcs Paris B 552 071 482

l'UAP capitalisaton
s.a. au capital de 55 000 000 F
entièrement versé
rcs Paris B 542 054 804

entreprises regies per le code des ass(?)
siège social: 9, place Venoume 75001
siège administratif: Tour Assur • La Dé(?)
1, place des Saisons • 92 Courbevoie


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)