The book "Four Cents an Acre: The Story of Louisiana Under the French, " by Georges Oudard (translated from the French "Notre Louisiane" by Margery Blanco), New York, 1931 is an interesting book. It doesn't have an index but does have a long bibliography, many of the entries being books written in French. The West India Company (later the Indian Company?) took over Louisiana around 1717. John Law busied himself in accumulating a large number of vessels. "His company ended up possessing a hundred and sixty-five ships, transportas and sloops of war, without counting the frigates and brigantines. He seemed at one moment to have carried off the entire merchant fleet of France and emptied all the arsenals of the realm to arm them, the seas at that time being very unsafe." (pp. 143-144) The officers of the Royal Navy were called the red officers and those of the Company were called blue officers. "The first sailings were from La Rochelle, othersfrom Le Havre. But Lorient, or rather Port-Louis, situated at one league from this city tended, from 1719, to become the cmpany's sole port in France. The "Comte de Toulouse," the Recommee, the Duchess de Noailles, the Badine, the Marie, the Dromedaire, the Elephant, the Chameau, the Baleine, the Gironde, the Seine, the Loire, the Deux Freres, and the Venus were consigned especially to the Louisiana service." (p. 144) "On November 18, 1718 the "Compte de Toulouse," commanded by Chevalier de Grieux, set sail with another hundred colonists." (p.146) This appears to be the only mention of Chevalier de Grieux in this book. Is there any chance that de Grieux could be the same as de Gruy? The pronunciation would seem to be somewhat similar. Frank McFarland