In doing a web search, I found at the website for the Archdiocese of New Orleans Collection, University of Notre Dame Archives some correspondence dated 1850 between Madame Annette Praz, headmistress of the school at St. Michael�s and Archbishop Anthony Blanc in New Orleans, asking Blanc to "arrange with Mrs. Placide Forstall not to send Laure back to school, as she gives a bad example." Three months later Madame Praz wrote again, reminding Archbishop Blanc that the issue of Laure Forstall had not yet been resolved. She had heard that Laure was planning to return, and she asked Blanc to persuade Mrs. Forstall to keep her daughter at home, lest she be "obliged to send her away later." Within a few days Placide Forstall came to ask why the school no longer wished to have Laure, and Madame Praz "explained Laure�s conduct of last year and that they could not in conscience keep pupils who wronged others by their bad spirit, insubordination, etc." Forstall promised that "if Laure ! does not give more satisfaction, he will withdraw her immediately." Laure Forstall was Delphine Macarty Lalaurie's granddaughter. Does anybody know anything about St. Michael's School? I assume that it was a Catholic Girls' School and that it was in Louisiana, but not in New Orleans. --- Carolyn Long --- carolynlong@earthlink.net