+EVOLUTION OF AN INFANT+ +FRENCH TROPIC COLONY+ ++++++++++++++++ >fertility was the magic< ********************** 1) in 1719 new orleans suffered its FIRST DISASTROUS FLOOD. **************************** 2) in 1722 a TROPICAL CYCLONE was disastrous to early creole settlers. *********************************** 3) in 1724 jean joseph de quintrec... ( from quimper, britanny ) ************************ note: >PROBABLY LA KINTREC< >DEVELOPED AN EARLY PLANTATION (river site lower garden district) ******************************** 4) in 1728 BIENVILLE who posessed a huge plantation in what is now +THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS+ (garden & buisness districts) >SOLD A LARGE PORTION FOR +THE JESUT PLANTATION+ (french govt. pressure) ********************** 5) IN 1763 THOMAS SAULET BOUGHT (our degruy/saulet ancestor) >A LARGE PORTION OF THE OLD +JESUIT PLANTATION+. (the jesuit plantation had been very successful but the king at the request of the +WEST INDIES COMPANY >banished them.) *************** 6) in 1787 JOSEPH FOUCHER and his wife MARGUERITE deCARRIERE (our degruy/foucher ancestors) >FOUCHER PLANTED INDIGO ON THEIR PLANTATION. (lower garden district) ********************** 7) in 1807 MARGUERITE FOUCHER who apparently by then was widow of +SILVESTRE DELORD SARPY+ >(also previously joseph foucher) >SOLD THE PLANTATION TO< >(famous as delord sarpy house -rendering, vol.#1 n.o. arch. ) *************************** +ARMAND DUPLANTIER+ >who also owned the plantation >MAGNOLIA MOUND >in baton rouge< *************** >WHICH HE LATER RENTED TO +PRINCE ACHILLE MURAT+ (napoleons nephew) ******************** +GENIUS IN THE JUNGLE+ ( french tropic syndrome ) >MURAT AND DUPLANTIER WERE BOTH TALENTED AND IMPORTANT PERSONA WHO BROUGHT GENIUS TO THE +FRENCH JUNGLE DYNAMIC+ ***************************** +achille murat, prince of the 2 sicilies was devoted to the tropics, slept on a moss matress, ate alligator steak AND WORKED TIRELESSLY TO LOVE RATHER THEN FEAR +T H E T R O P I C S+ ******************** +(once residents of new orleans)+ >AS WELL AS BATON ROUGE< >he and his wife, a descendent of geo. washington, settled finally in florida WHERE THEY ARE CELEBRATED & >HIS PAPERS & HOME VALUED< ******************************** ( another french connection ) + armand duplantier had been aide de camp to general LAFAYETTE whose wife marie was of our french creole family ************************************* +de la VERNE+ ************* ("princess of cleves" authoress) ****************************** >DUPLANTIER'S GARDEN DISTRICT HOME (the famous "delord sarpy house") >AND PLANTATION WAS NEXT TO OUR **************************************** +THOMAS SAULET+ ****************** ( seeds of our apocalypse ) >on october, 6, 1800, francois joseph verloin degruy married his daughter >marie heloise saulet< ********************** +EARLY IN THE EVOLUTION OF UPTOWN NEW ORLEANS AN ENCLAVE OF +FRENCH CREATIVE TALENT+ +was planted and grew+ *********************** +ONLY NOW, FOR US, DOES THIS >MIES-EN-SCENE< DYNAMIC >offer us a poetry that >E X P L A I N S< +our passion+ ************ gene ray, san diego, california (google) eugenerayart.com