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The two brothers married two sisters surnamed Caignet M. Vallantin Dulac misspells it as Coignet. We are, indeed, members of that posterity. Were they born in France or in Cuba?

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How did they end up marrying two sisters? What did they do in Santiago? When did they die? It was the first of many such crossings. Even though he did much to fight the abusive treatment of slaves, M.

He was divorced from his wife on 1 messidor II, after leaving for Saint-Domingue, but remarried her on 14 prairial XII, upon his return to France, and I mention this because I adore the revolutionary calendar. More on that, too, later. Our sources are vague and at times contradictory, mistaken and perhaps even apocryphal. They flee for Santiago de Cuba, where he dies, and then she ends up in New Orleans, where she, a very young widow, marries Julien Tardy.

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Twitter Facebook Google Email. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. This site uses cookies. Following his peripatetic father and mother, he must have spent his childhood between Cuba and France.

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As if to honor his life on two continents, he married twice: Those are the facts, such as they are. With the help of an acquaintance that we miraculously ran into at Barajas, we made it to calle Jacometrezo, where the International Rescue Committee was headquartered. She was born in Marbella, back then a small Andalusian town from which, on clear days, one could see the coast of Africa. Her father, an artist, migrated to Cuba with his three young daughters sometime in the early twentieth century in search of new seascapes to paint.

Here is a picture of Maruja taken in , in the elaborate living room of that house, not quite surrounded by the soon-to-be migrants. Her last years — she died in — must have been difficult and lonely. Her husband, a magistrate, had died over a decade ago, and her other son besides my father, a doctor in Havana, had also passed away prematurely.

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Maruja never returned to Spain, the country where her son, daughter-in-law and grandson were now political refugees, desperately wanting to return to their old New World. No one in my immediate family has told me anything about him, but his digital afterlife — unlike that of Maruja, nonexistent until now — allows one to construct a rich and venturesome biography.

He was the oldest son of Pierre Vidaud du Dognon, No. In Port-au-Prince, Pierre No. Our Pierre, the French man of commerce, was born in Port-au-Prince, like his mother, in His five sisters were born in France, and it is altogether plausible to assume that he spent his childhood in those places where his parents appear to have settled: In any event, the young couple would not stay put for long.

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Her husband, a magistrate, had died over a decade ago, and her other son besides my father, a doctor in Havana, had also passed away prematurely. His florid signature is inscribed as that of a witness on various birth and death certificates. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! This site uses cookies. Twitter Facebook Google Email. The estate was under the care of an administrador, a fine-looking, intelligent Frenchman, who received us with much kindness, and under his hospitable roof we soon found all the comforts of a home. Her last years — she died in — must have been difficult and lonely.

Their first child — Pierre Paul, who would later become the comte Vidaud du Dognon de Pomerait, was born in Bordeaux in His florid signature is inscribed as that of a witness on various birth and death certificates. No year is given for her death.

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In recent times, our Pierre has reappeared in historiographical works about the French community of Santiago de Cuba. But who was he really, this merchant — this, dare I say it, patriarch? What was he like? But digital Pierre remains virtually unfathomable.

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Pierre Vidaud de Pomerait, you were born in Port-au-Prince, went to live in France as a child, returned to the Caribbean as a young man, married a lady of French descent also born in those parts, had nine children, witnessed several births and deaths, owned ships, crossed the Atlantic many times, achieved what appears to be a measure of prosperity, and then you died in the city of Bordeaux in Pierre Vidaud de Pomerait, your coat looks so nice and warm, your top hat is most elegant, and your cane — well, sometimes a cane is just a cane.

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As the faithful reader may recall, the young woman found herself in Philadelphia after the violent death of her father the architect , and there she married her first husband, Anthony Tardet de Larochell, also known as we think Julien Tardy. The sky is gray, but it may well the Blogger prefers it that way. Melancholy days are perfect for invoking the past. Records show most of them settled in Bordeaux.