Louis Detonas

Louis Detonas is a 9th generation Toreador resident of the Milwaukee area.

Biography
"So, I am supposed to explain myself to you. How gauche. Oh well, noblesse oblige and all that I am the son of nobles, French men and women who dedicated themselves to supporting the arts and the people. They gave their all for the masses, and were repaid in blood. It was the Revolution which they supported and the Revolution which killed them. I shall assuredly not make the same mistake.

I was rescued from the guillotine by Natasha, who had seen my sculptures in the past, and hoped to keep me alive to make more. We fled France and went east, first to Venice and then to Rome. We eventually went our separate ways, and I began to seek a new place to live. The Revolutions which shook Europe and the freedom movements in Italy kept these lands from being any place for a true artiste, so I left and came to America, hoping for a land free from war.

The "Civil" War dashed these hopes. I left that madness and went as far north as I thought I could without entering the lands of the damned British. I thought Milwaukee would be that, but as you know, it is as much a land of madness as any I have left.

Now I strive to keep some culture alive in this barbaric land. Thanks to Lucina, I no longer have to keep the iconoclastic Anarchs from destroying everything on my own. Together we fight these dogs, and will continue to do so juste de nue."

- Personal statement