-----Original Message----- From: mauricepequet <[email protected]> To: Jacqueline Graff <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:19 PM Subject: Anne Francoise Rolland Caught your querie on the LGHS list. The LGR issue you are looking for is VOL.XXVII NUMBER 2 JUNE, 1980, Pages II5-117. "Anne Francis ROLLAND and her early years in Paris" Also see "LEDOUX" by Laverne Thomas III, pages 720-728, published by Polyanthos Press of New Orleans, 1982. This sketch outlines her life and marriages to three prominent pioneer families, Bordelon, Raquancourt and Saizon. The life of Anne Francis Rolland and the other French girls sent from the streets of Paris inspired the classic tale by Abbe Prevost, "Manon Lascaut" which was first a novellette and later became a play, and still later two famous operas. Prevost had several motives for writing this story, one of which was to dramatize the opportunities which could be found in Louisiana. His heroine, the young girl Manon Laschat, who drifts into bad company, is sent to Louisiana, and her lover DesGrieux, a man of good family, persues her to the colony, only to find that she has married another. This romatic tale has several parrelels with the! life, as we know it, of Anne Francis Rolland. I find this a fascinating tale that has been kicked around by several genealogists, who actually believe that the story was really Anne Francis Rollands. She is one of the most fascinating person in my family tree. Maurice Jaquelin Pecquet (du Bellet de Verton)