( san diego, california, last night ) ******************************** >THE VAUDECHAMP PORTRAIT OF ( new orleans 1840 ) +FRANCOIS VERLOIN de GRUY+ (my great grandfather ) >looked down from over our fireplace to a gathering of our friends known as "THE BASTILE GROUP" ( some belong in the bastile ) *************************** >CARRIERE SYNCHRONICITY< *************************** >amazingly, in this group is a lady who KNEW THE CARRIERE FAMILY OF OLD NEW ORLEANS ************************ >you will recall my memory of the de CARRIERE PLANTATION on a very old 18th century map of THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS >showing the foucher, de bore and ( COUTOURIER ) >other degruy related plantations *********************************** >LOCATED ALONG THE RIVER ON THE FORMER BIENVILLE/JESUIT LAND. ( now the heart of uptown and garden district new orleans ) **************************** +de GRUY/FOUCHER/deBORE+ >francois verloin degruy married into the foucher family ( felicie ). pierre (FAMILY, MARQUIS de CIRCE) >foucher was etienne debore's son in law and etienne's mother was ********************************** +THERESE CELESTE deCARRIERE+ ******************************* +FOUCHER/deCARRIERE/SARPY+ >yesterday we discovered this dynamic was enriched by the marriage of ********************************* +MARGURITE deCARRIERE+ to +JOSEPH FOUCHER+ ******************* +WEST INDIAN CREOLE HOUSE+ ( SARPY/FOUCHER ) >their plantation house became famous (beautiful illustration p.2, n.o. arch. vol.1) +DELORD-SARPY PLANTATION+ (faubourg delord sarpy) *********************** >SYLVESTRE DELORD-SARPY married to +MARGURITE FOUCHER+ >bought this legendary house constructed in 1765 ********************* +PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE RENDERING OF THIS DELORD- SARPY PLANTATION HOUSE ***************************** >this west indian creole house captures the essence of early new orleans with +ITS INDIGO CROP HISTORY+ >(18th cent. pre-sugar) ********************* >the deGRUY, FOUCHER, deBORE deSTRAHAN, deCARRIERE, SARPY, deSONIATduFOSSAT >COUTOURIER, etc.etc. families ****************************** >developing a nucleus of this +CREME de la CREME+ +UPTOWN NEW ORLEANS+ >F O U N D A T I O N< +++++++++++++ ( fabourg/garden dist.) ********************* NOTE: an interesting deCARRIERE / PERRY / AUFRERE 18th century ******************************** +SYNCHRONICITY+ ***************** >is that the deCARRIERE are listed among the original vieux carre +PIONEER SETTLERS+ ******************** >next door neighbors to ************************ +GERARD PERRY+ and +MARIE AUFRERE PERRY+ *********************** gene ray, san diego, california (google) eugenerayart.com