>for degruy scholar/researchers< +EXELLENT PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE+ +ON THE INTERNET AS OF NOW+ ******************************** 1) THOMAS SAULET ( google ) will offer exellent photos of the SAULET plan- tation house constructed in 1763 ******************************** >this is one of the very first plantation houses constructed on the old >bienville / jesuit plantation. **************************** >under FAUBOURGS (of new orleans) ************************************* >YOU WILL FIND SAULET & DELORD- SARPY FAUBOURGS REVEALING (drawings & photos) >EXELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS OF BOTH PLANTATION HOUSES (saulet/foucher/sarpy/ soniat-dufossat/and >de carriere) +OF OUR RELATED FAMILIES. **************************** >1726 CENSUS< >NOTE: marguerite carriere foucher's family goes back to the birth of the +VIEUX CARRE+ ************** +JOSEPH de CARRIERE+ >lived on chartres st. below the +ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL+ *********************** >the aufreres and perrys were his neighbors @ chartres and st ann streets. ****************** +SARPY / FOUCHER+ >the drawing of the delord-sarpy plantation is truly fabulous. **************************** +TROPIQUE/MAGIQUE+ >it shows much vegetation accenting the tropical nature of the jungle. ********************************* >I CANNOT EXPRESS THE JOY< >fully enough felt when starting my 2nd street, garden district studio ( BANANA / ELEPHANT EAR- >RADIANT COLOR<) >in a former private school in >the autumn of 1966. ******************** >NEW ORLEANS BEAUTY< >note: the vegetative nature of the beauty of uptown new orleans (UNLIKE VIEUX CARRE) >continues to this very day ************************** (delord-sarpy plantation) >SAMUEL WILSON SELECTED THIS AND THE SAULET PLANTATION (pages 2 and 20) >DRAWING TO FEATURE IN HIS N.O. ARCHITECTURE, VOL 1 *************************** +GARDEN DISTRICT BIRTH+ >i must emphasize strongly the importance of these 2 houses ****************************** +TO THE HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS IN ITS INITIAL (from 1763) >GROWTH OUTSIDE OF THE VIEUX CARRE. ****************** >this was on the uptown side of the of the vieux carre. the faubourg marigny below the vieux carre was not developed until a much later 1805. ******************* >AND THIS INVOLVED 3 deGRUY RELATED FAMILIES:...DREUX, VOISIN and de MARIGNY. ************************** +JOHN RAY PHOTOGRAPH+ >last night i discovered that if you google: JOHN RAY, new orleans, (my great grandfather who was husband of >CATHERINE deBRES(SE) (degruy/desavoy tie) ********************* >YOU WILL SOON FIND A WEBSITE THAT SELLS HIS 1876 PHOTO. ****************************** >more importantly< (another website) +APPLETON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF+ +AMERICAN HISTORY+ ********************* >that presents an outline of his very adventuresome life. ************************* gene ray, san diego, california (google) eugenerayart.com