--- On Thu, 9/16/10, Eugene Ray <eamcray@webtv.net> wrote: From: Eugene Ray <eamcray@webtv.net> Subject: LOUIS FOUCHER VOUDOU LINK married to marie laveau's sister ST. CHARLES PARISH 1774 VIEW glapion/laveau/rillieux/musson DEGAS & DUMAS IMPRESSIONS degruy children land inheritance ST. JEAN EVE SUMMER SOLSTICE levee bonfires & african drums / PARISIAN CULTURAL HUNGER / french tropic syndrome radiance To: emradiant@sbcglobal.net Cc: eamcray@webtv.net Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 11:06 AM From: Eugene Ray Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:02 AM To: degruy@rootsweb.com Cc: eamcray@webtv.net Subject: LOUIS FOUCHER VOUDOU LINK married to marie laveau's sister ST. CHARLES PARISH 1774 VIEW glapion/laveau/rillieux/musson DEGAS & DUMAS IMPRESSIONS degruy children land inheritance ST. JEAN EVE SUMMER SOLSTICE levee bonfires & african drums / PARISIAN CULTURAL HUNGER / french tropic syndrome radiance          +ST. CHARLES PARISH 1774 VIEW+      >when marie therese aufrere (degruy)           duseau de la croix died in 1774 the            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^            +NEW FRENCH KING LOUIS XVI+                      >and his habsburg<             +QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE+                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       >caused a surge of french hope & pride       >in the remote colony of new orleans<            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^      +THE deGRUY CHILDREN GIVEN THEIR+               >(by stepfather de la croix)<        +INHERITANCE HAD A FRESH START+             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^      >it is a strange synchronicity that their          next door neighbor's wife & mother         +JEANNE-ANTOINETE de GLAPION+              >had died in february of 1774<                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^               +DEATH-DUTY INVENTORY+         >the de glapion plantation was given          an inventory, as was the custom, by                  +COOPERATIVE LIVING+                     (close french-african)        >duseau de la croix & pierre rillieux             >of the adjoining plantations<                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          (degruy inheretance not itemised)             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       +THE WEST INDIES CREOLE HOUSE+              (raised 5 feet off the ground)                >french tropic syndrome<         +70 FEET WIDE BY 40 FEET DEPTH+                (25 miles above vieux carre)                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^               +FERTILE INDIGO ALLUVIA+     >this land was 16 arpents wide and was        valued at six thousand livres owned by               +CHRISTOPHE de GLAPION+                  >(louis xiv family friend)<                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^            >an estimate of 24,282 livres for                >other community property<                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          +LA CROIX-deGRUY PLANTATION+     >(the de la croix/degruy plantation next       door was slightly smaller at 15 arpents            and no value was given but must               have been about 5,700 livres).                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         +VINCENT RILLIEUX PLANTATION+    >joseph duseau de la croix had sold a 10        arpent plantation to vincent rillieux                     +1800 LIVRE VALUE+          >30 miles above the vieux carre<              >on april 19th, of that year<                    +THE FATEFUL 1774+                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^        >(the year the marquis de lafayette             married into the noailles family              >with its nola de la verne link)                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         +100 YEARS LATER EDGAR DEGAS+                   >would bring fame to<           +THE MUSSON-RILLIEUX FAMILY+                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^               +EXOTIC CREOLE AMBIENCE+     >imbued with the french african blood of         his musson-rillieux ancestors this rich            new orleans mise-en-scene was a                  +CREATIVE INSPIRATION+            >to the talented parisian painter<                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       +RILLIEUX-DUMAS-GLAPION-LAVEAU+              >french/african blood milieu<      +VOUDOU WAS A VITAL EXPRESSION+              (the parisians were fascinated)                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       >edgar degas had much tropical flavor           to bring back to a parisian society                 +ART-LITERATURE-MUSIC+            >hungry for this vital ambience<.                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       +GAUGUIN WAS IMPRESSED & HAD+              >(he told degas tahiti was a                >more primal "tropique"<        +A PASSION FOR THE SOUTH SEAS+             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                 +CHRISTOPHE GLAPION+     >the son<, as we know moved in with                     +MARIE LAVEAU+     >the celebrated queen of the voudous         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^             +WHAT WE DIDN'T KNOW+                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          >is that marie's laveau half sister<                   (marie louise d'arcantel)     +WAS THE WIDOW OF LOUIS FOUCHER+       >providing interesting social dynamic<.            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^           +SAINT JEANS EVE CEREMONIES+     >during this period of the 1830's in old         new orleans huge bon fires were lit         +ALONG THE ST. CHARLES PARISH+             >african drums/dances/music<               +MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE+                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^        >to celebrate the important ancient<                  +FREEMASON HOLIDAY+           (shades of the grand orient lodge)              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                          >devoted to<              +SAINT JEAN THE BAPTISTE+      >great patron of the voudous and the<              >FRENCH KNIGHTS TEMPLAR<                  (crucial degruy reference)                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                 >degruy oral history and                     +GENETIC MEMORY+                         ^^^^^^^^^^^                gene ray, san diego, california