+ON MARCH, 19, 2008+ (see degruy index for 2008) +ROOTSWEB INDEX+ >i wrote a message about our famous +foucher/debore ancestor+ +ETIENNE de BORE+ >former king's guard at versailles >MEDAL OF ST. LOUIS< >(1st modern improved sugar refiner in louisiana, saved colonial agriculture) +FRENCH ROYALIST LETTER+ >etienne de bore wrote a letter to his foucher/rouchehouart relative in +F R A N C E+ +COUNTESS de ROCHEHOUART= de limoges >de MONTBOSSIER >de MONTMART +FOUCHER DESCENDED+ >oldest french nobility except +BOURBON KINGS+ ^^^^^^^^^^^ +CLASSIC ROYALIST DRAMA+ >may i recommend your reading on the internet the amazing life of +GENERAL LOUIS VICTOR-LEON+ +de ROCHEHOUART+ >military governor of paris 1815-1821 >NO FICTION CAN MATCH HIS +AMAZING LIFE STORY+. +FRENCH REVOLUTION+ (plight of nobility) 1) mother flees france in 1794 after trying to aid marie antoinette. >SISTER DIES WANDERING (three days, paris) >STREETS, EXHAUSTED. 2) he and his brother, 4 & 6 turned into slaves @ pension in caen. +DUKE OF MONTMART+ (uncle) 5) freed by relative, spends years looking for mother w/o success +DUKE OF RICHELIEU+ (uncle) 6) always a royalist, many years as soldier beginning age 12 in (CONDE ARMY LOST) >portugal, russia, holland. germany, belgium etc. +(FINDS MOTHER, SHE DIES) (in poland) 7) becomes officer as 14 yearold and important in court of louis xviii +RETURN TO POWER+ 8) marries into nobility and assumes +ELIZABETH OUVARD+ >military leadership in paris. +WRITES HISTORY OF THE FAMILY +deROCHEHOUART+ (also his memoirs) +HE NAMED HIS DAUGHTER+ +V A L E N T I N E+ ( yes, valentin !) >also see "history and genealogy of the house of rochehouart" by george martin, (1992) +OBSERVATIONS+ >NOTE: he fought in many battles in the champagne / lorraine area +INCLUDING BRIENNE & FERE+ >verloin degruy mies en scene which (RELATED CHATEAUX) >i am planning and booking into +AUTUMN SAFARI 2009+ +SEARCH FOR SACRED SEEDS+ +LOIRE/CHAMPAGNE+ +PARIS/LORRAINE+ >additional interest in verloin degruy locations is that he was close to +MARSHAL NEY+ +WHO WAS FROM THE+ +PIEDMONT+ +dukes of bresse / savoy country+ >IN 1796-98 THE FIRST PLACE HE LOOKED FOR HIS MOTHER (she was in england) >WAS IN FRIEBURG (GRUYERE) >it would be valuable to read what +ETIENNE de BORE+ >wrote his rochehouart relatives in france during early 1800s. ( CHECK TULANE ARCHIVE ) >i shall try to do this in march enroute >to the french west indies< . +REMEMBER+ +OLD REGIME HOSPITALITY+ >the foucher/decirce/debore/degruy destrahan/fazande/gayarre +deMARIGNY, deDREIUX+ >and related families had hosted +FUTURE KINGS+ +TEMPLAR/LORRAINE RINGS+ >louis philippe and his brothers >during the revolution. >IT WAS IN THIS PERIOD THAT THE MARQUIS FOUCHER de CIRCE (see degruy photos) >LEFT NEW ORLEANS FOR +FRANCE, FOREVER+. gene ray, san diego, california