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Colonel Pandely married, in 1854, his cousin, Ernestine Martain- ville. and many children came to them, but one of whom survives ; the youngest child. Laura, born 1875; married Alfred Patterson, and has four children : Ruth, Marie Louise, Pandely and George. They live in New York, and have a suburban residence on Staten Island. Mr. Patterson is in mercantile business as an importer.
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An elder daughter of George Pandely, also named Laura, became the wife of the distinguished surgeon and physician, Dr. Arthur W. de Roalds, elected President of Laryngological Association of America, July, 1906; now in Europe. She died without children.
Col. Pandely was a man of broad views and extensive knowledge of men and things. Besides the classical curriculum of the schools, he had trained his mind to the consideration of practical economic questions, and those of a scientific character. He had travelled cx- tensively in the United States and Europe, which made him most companionable, and he was noted for courtesy and good-fellowship. He was a member of several of the most select social clubs-"Bos- ton," "Circle," "St. Louis," "Chess, Checkers and Whist," among them.
Aimée Manuella Dimitry, second child of Andrea Dimitry, and Marianne Celeste Dracos, was born in New Orleans, June 12, 1802; died, May 2nd, 1882; married in New Orleans, Jan. 10, 1826. Auguste Dietz, a native of France. He had been Mayor of Marti- see, and was the son of Etienne Dietz, and Julie Bastile. They had issue :
I. Marie Philomene Elizabeth Dietz, born Feb. 18, 1828, in France; d. Sept. 23, 1903, at New Orleans, La. Mar- ried, first, Capt. John Dimitry, of Hydra, Greece, who was a nephew of Andrea Dimitry, and son of George Dimitry and Zinte Coro.
Capt. John Dimitry was born Dec., 1819. They had issue two sons, still-born. Capt. John Dimitry was commander of a river steamboat.
Marie Philomene Elizabeth took for her second husband, July 31, 1862, Antoine Challaire, son of Antoine Challaire and Justine Fons. They had no issue. Antoine Challaire died a few months after his wife.
II. Paul Auguste Dietz, second child of Aimée Manuella Dimitry and Auguste Dietz, died, unmarried, in San Francisco, California.
III. Alfred Dietz, died an infant; 18 months.
IV. Theodore Melville Dietz, died, unmarried.
V. Paul Ambrose Dietz, a college professor, author and phil- anthropist. d. at Los Angeles, California, June 2, 1891;
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married Theodore Zoellair, and had one son and two daughters. The son, Theodore, and the daughter, Marie Gertrude, died before their father; the other daughter, Mary J. Dietz, is living in Los Angeles.
VI. Marie Emily Dietz, born in Mobile, Ala. Married Alex- ander Bidault, of Bordeaux, France, and had issue : Marie, Alice, Alma, Alida, and Abdul Auguste; all died young, the eldest but a few years old. Marie Em- ily died Oct. 11, 1904.
John Baptiste Michael Dracos Dimitry, fifth child of Andrea Dimitry and Marianne Celeste Dracos, was b. New Orleans, La., May 18, 1809 ; d. New Orleans, La., Jan. 12, 1873. Married (New Orleans, La., Jan. 12, 1836) Caroline Sophia Powers, b. June 13, 1820; d. July 10, 1892, daughter of Theodore Powers, and Caro- line Elizabeth Frances Perouse. They had issue :
I. Theodore, b. March 16, 1839; d. Saturday, May 31, 1904. Married, March 1, 1871, Irene Mary Scott, b. in Colum- bus, Ga., Dec. 3, 1852, daughter of Joel Tomlyn Scott, and Naomi Josephine Wood. They had issue :
I. Josephine Naomi Dimitry, b. New Orleans, Jan. 9, 1872; d. New Orleans, La., Jan. 11, 1904; married, June 6, 1896, Octave F. Desforges, of New Orleans. Their issue :
I. Octave F. Desforges, Jr., b. Sept. 2, 1897.
II. Irene Dimitry Desforges, b. Dec. 30, 1899.
III. Theodore Dimitry Desforges, b. Dec. 4, 1901.
IV. Rénè Destouche Desforges, b. Dee. 4, 1901.
II. Michael Dracos Dimitry, b. New Orleans, Aug. 9, 1874. Married, June 29, 1904, Genevieve, daughter of Geo. W. Flynn, Esq., of New Orleans.
III. Clino Sophia Dimitry, b. New Orleans, March 1, 1877. Married, May 17, 1900, Louis Beauvais. They have issue :
I. Alice Natili Beauvais, b. Aug. 4, 1902.
II. Mary Clino Dimitry Beauvais, b. Aug. 24, 1904.
IV. Theodore John Dimitry, b. New Orleans, June 26, 1879. V. Irene Mary Dimitry, b. New Orleans, July 4, 1881.
VI. John Scott Dimitry, b. New Orleans, Nov. 21, 1886.
VII. Charlotte Sophia Dimitry, b. New Orleans, June 24, 1890.
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THEODORE JOHN DIMITRY.
Theodore John Dimitry, an old and respected soldier and citizen, who, in the sacred cause of the Southland in the dark days of the sixties let his every energy serve with never failing zeal to the very last of the bitter struggle, passed calmly and peacefully away, Saturday morning, May 31, 1904, at 7 o'clock. Mr. Dimitry was 65 years old, and had been an invalid for two or more months, from a complication, so that his death, though expected, was not the less a severe shock to his family and a large circle of friends and comrades, who regarded him for his true manliness and gen- uine kindness of heart. Through his protracted illness, Mr. Dimitry was a patient sufferer, uncomplaining, and grateful for the gentle ministrations of a faithful wife and helpful, considerate children, and finding consolation in the bright hope held out to him by the Roman Catholic Church, of which faith he was a devout follower. As the good gentleman's eyes were closing in death, after he had received the blessed sacrament, the Spirit of Peace seemed with him and his end was as a wearied one sinking to sleep.
Mr. Dimitry was born in New Orleans, March 16, 1839, son of M. D. Dimitry and Sophia Powers, who were very prominently connected with education in the state. He was the nephew of Alexander Dimitry, the first Superintendent of State Education in Louisiana, and who organized the public school system through- out the state.
At his death Mr. Dimitry was the president of the Louisiana Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Camp I, C. S. V., and the honor of that office was due him, although he was but a private soldier, on account of his splendid record in peace and war. He enlisted in Louisiana Guard Artillery early in March, 1861, dur- ing the first days of the bloody war, and the command to which he was attached was hurried to the front to play a part in the thrilling drama that was to be enacted in Virginia. Mr. Dimitry was in the thick of the terrific battle of Gettysburg and in other fierce fights with General Lee's brave army. As the war was closing, the young soldier, with other impetuous comrades in arms, avoided taking part in the surrender at Appomattox, and making their way through perils and difficulties to the side of
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Jefferson Davis, attached themselves to his person as body guard to the President of the Confederate States. Mr. Dimitry and the other soldiers who formed the guard were with President Davis to the last and only left him when the war was a thing of the past and he begged them to do so.
At the close of the war, Mr. Dimitry returned to New Orleans, and some time later was appointed clerk of the Council during the term of Louis Wiltz as mayor. After this he entered railroad service and became Superintendent of the Pontchartrain Railroad. When the Pontchartrain was absorbed by the Louisville and Nash- ville, Mr. Dimitry became Custom House Agent for the Southern Pacifie Company, which position he held up to the time of his death. Mr. Dimitry graduated from Georgetown College with the degree of A. B. and afterwards A. M. He was also Vice-President of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He was an enthusiastic worker in furthering the essential prin- ciples of patriotism and American citizenship.
II. Mary Celeste Dimitry, second child of Dracos Dimitry and Sophia Powers, was born Feb. 18, 1842. Married (April 26, 1866) John Thomas Block, who was born at Cape Giradeau, Mo., April 1, 1835. They had issue :
I. Theodore Henry Block, b. March 12, 1867; d. New Orleans, La., July 14, 19 -.
II. John Thomas Block, b. Jan. 5, 1873.
III. Mary Celeste Block, b. Oet. 4, 1874.
IV. Walter Bailey Block, b. Nov. 15, 1876. Married Graziella Francis, daughter of Dr. Francis, of Lafay- ette. They have children :
I. Herbert Block.
II. Ida Block.
V. Susan Demarest Block, b. Aug. 1, 1878.
III. Clino Sophia Dimitry, daughter of Dracos Dimitry and Sophia Powers; b. 1844. Married (July 11, 1877) Captain James Gale. They had issue :
I. James Gale, Jr., b. New Orleans, Sept. 13, 1879.
II. John Block Gale, b. New Orleans, May 1, 1881.
III. William Dimitry Gale, b. in New Orleans, Oct. 1, 1884.
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IV. Alexander Dimitry, b. 1846. Married Ada Smith and had one child, Eloise Elizabeth Dimitry, b. May 16, 1884. Married (Thursday, March 15. 1906, at St. George's Episcopal Church, by Rev. W. E. Woodhouse Durham) to Mr. Alvin V. Eckert.
V. Dracos Anthony Dimitry, Agent S. P. Ry., New Iberia, La. Married (Dec. 27, 1882) Mary Elizabeth Ruth, a granddaughter of Alexander Dimitry.
VI. Robert Lusher Dimitry. Married Emily Pinigy. They had issue :
I. James, in U. S. Army, Philippine Islands, afterwards returned to New Orleans. Married and has one child ; clerk of Twelfth Precinct station : residence, 2124 St. Thomas Street.
II. Frederick, lives in New York City, unmarried.
III. Thomas, unmarried, lives with his brother, James.
IV. Emily, unmarried, lives with her cousin, Mrs. Clino Gale, 113 A Stuyvesant Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
V. Nina Pinigy, married Angelo Stelle Yeargain, in Trinity Chapel, New Orleans, La., Dec. 6, 1905, by Rev. A. Gordon Bakewell. A. S. Yeargain is money clerk, Southern Express Co., at New Orleans; residence Melpemene, near Carondelet St., New Orleans, La.
VI. Robert Lusher, d. New Orleans, La., June ?, 1894.
Clina Angelica Dimitry, the sixth child of Andrea Dimitry and Maria Celeste Dracos, b. New Orleans, March 7, 1811; d. Bay St. Louis, July 19, 1882. Married (1841) Giovanni Pieri, M. D., Pistoya, Italy. They had issue :
I. George Pieri, d. young and unmarried.
II. Laura Pieri, d. young and unmarried.
III. Anthony Pieri. d. young and unmarried.
IV. Gino Pieri, b. Sept. 14, 1848. Married (June 28, 1869) Mary Alphonsine Cuevas, and have issue :
I. Willis Pieri, born dead.
II. Willis John Pieri, b. Dec. 3, 1870; d. May 13. 1889.
Stella Pieri, b. Sept. 1871; d. 15 days after.
III. IV.
Clifton Pieri. b. June, 1872. Married Fannie Dardennes. of Crescent Plantation, Plaquemine or Iberville Parish. They have a son, b. 1895. and a daughter, b. 1877; d. when eight months old.
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V. Warren Pieri, b. Dec., 1873. Married Annie Kilper, of Houston, Texas, Jan., 1896. They have a daughter, Kinta Pieri.
VI. Stella Pieri, b. in the early part of 1877.
VII. Reuben Pieri, b. Dec., 1880.
VIII. Chester Arthur Pieri, b. June, 1882.
IX. Florence Pieri, b. 1884.
X. Myrtle Pieri, b. 1886.
XI. Otis Gino Pieri, b. 1888.
XII. Clino Pieri, b. 1890.
XIII. Ivy Pieri, b. 1892.
XIV. Ethel Pieri, b. Dec., 1895; d. same day.
The father of Giovanni Pieri was Andrea Pieri, b. in Florence and died in Leghorn. Italy, in 1854. His wife was Elizabeth Mantueci. From this marriage was born :
I. Mrs. Laura Cappalani.
II. Mrs. Carl Just.
III. Mrs. Diamonti Bertagni.
IV. Giovanni Pieri, b. Oct., 1811, in the city of Pistoza.
Giovanni Pieri graduated as a doctor of medicine at the Medical College, Pisa, Italy. After graduation he removed to Paris, France, where he founded the "Italian College of Classics." Thence, having become involved in political intrigues for the unifi- cation of Italy, then composed of a number of separate govern- ments, he emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, where he was asso- ciated with Louis Napoleon and the historical Italian politician, Mazini. This last in his letters, written as late as 1845, to Giovanni Pieri, called him "Carissimo Fratello," meaning, of course, that they were brothers in the same conspiracy.
The plans of the brotherhood made it desirable to have an agent at New Orleans, and Giovanni Pieri was sent there. In 1841-2 he capitulated to the charms of the beautiful Clino Angelica Dimitry, and she proved herself to be as the name indi- cated, a "yielding angel," and they were married and removed to Bay St. Louis, where she died July 19, 1882, two years after the death of her husband, July 9, 1880.
The wife of Gino Pieri, Mary Alphonsine Cuevas, was born Jan. 1, 1852; she was the eldest daughter of Irma Wilkinson and Ramon C. Cuevas. Irma Wilkinson was the daughter of Julius
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C. Wilkinson and Estelle Monet, who was of French birth and came to America in 1820, from Pan, France. Wilkinson figured in Mississippi as one of the leading jurists of his time.
Ramon C. Cuevas was the son of Don Juan Cuevas, who located on Cat Island, on the Mississippi coast, eleven and one-fourth miles east of Bay St. Louis, and had accumulated considerable means at the period of the battle of New Orleans.
A few days before the battle, officers from the English fleet visited Cat Island and tried to persuade Don Juan Cuevas to pilot them through the bayous to the rear of New Orleans. This he refused to do, and in consequence he was placed in irons on one of the ships until after the battle, when he was liberated.
Cable says, "Dan Cuevas held the ladder upon which Andrew Jackson elimbed to victory," and indeed had he yielded to the solicitations of the British, which would not have been treasonable in an unnaturalized foreigner. the results of the fight might have been different and the loss of life by the defenders of the city would certainly have been much greater.
Considering that the cheering cry of the British attack was "beauty and booty," the hand of God can be seen in the stand taken by Cuevas.
The Congress of the United States was brought to see this noble stand in the proper light and he was voted $80,000 cash in compensation for his losses and imprisonment, but the money Cuevas refused, saying, in a somewhat Quixotic spirit, that he would take no reward for doing his duty. However, the President sent a special commissioner to ask him in what way the country could show its gratitude, without wounding his sense of propriety. whereupon Don Cuevas said that it had been the dream of his life to own Cat Island in his own right. and he was thereupon given the title to the island in fee simple.
Marie Françoise Athenaïs Dimitry, b. in New Orleans, Feb. 5. 1813, married three times and d. in New Orleans. March 23. 1897. Married, first (March 23, 1829). Isidore Michael Ravant Martainville, who was born in Sainte Susanne sur Riviere, Depart- ment de la Marche, Avondisement de St. Lo, bas Normandie, France, son of Bernard Martainville and Françoise Gautier, d. 1833, and had issue, two daughters:
I. Marie Françoise Virginia Ernestine Martainville. b. Jan.
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11, 1832; d. Nov. 23, 1875. Married (1854) George, son of Paul Pandeli.
II. Elizabeth Olivia Martainville. b. Jan. 9, 1833. Married Charles Antoine Fassy, Feb. 1. 1865.
I. Henry Fassy, b. Jan. 7, 1856; d. March 31, 1859.
II. Elizabeth Fassy, b. 1857; d. same day.
III. Walter Thomas Fassy, b. Aug. 10, 1858. Married Pauline Marie Finance and had seven children :
I. Olivia Fassy, b. Oct. 24, 1891.
II. Walter Fassy, b. Oct. 24, 1892.
III. Charles Fassy, b. April 27, 1894.
IV. Olivia Josephine Fassy, b. Oct. 22, 1862; d. May 6, 1901.
V. Charles Antoine Fassy, b. Aug. 22, 1864; d. May 27, 1865.
VI. and VII. Two children, still-born.
VIII. Virginia Ernestine Fassy, b. May 16, 1857; d. Feb. 21, 1889.
IX. Emma Amelie Fassy, b. Dec. 3, 1872; d. June 13, 1892.
Charles Antoine Fassy was born in New Orleans, 1827; d. New Orleans, 1873. Ile was the son of Joseph Henry Fassy, who came to New Orleans in 1826, and was born in Scioto Marseilles, France. His wife was Amelie Bandez de Segoria, who d. 1847. She was of a Spanish family of Barcelona, which emigrated to Barancas, Florida, and thence removed to New Orleans. Joseph Henry Fassy died in 1857. Charles Antoine Fassy died from the after effects of an accident he experienced in falling down the hatch- way of a ship, the unloading of which he was supervising.
Marie Françoise Virginia Ernestine Martainville married George Pandely. They had issue :
I. Laura Pandely, b. Sept. 4, 1855. Married Arthur de Roaldes, physician and surgeon, Feb. 20, 1873, in New Orleans. Laura died May 8, 1875. They had no children.
Dr. Arthur Washington de Roaldes, b. Opelousas, La., Jan. 25, 1849, son of Dr. Abel de Roaldes and grand-nephew of Gen'l Garriques de Faujac, an emigrant during the French Revolution, and afterwards a State Senator of Louisiana; one of the heroes of the battle of New Orleans and specially mentioned in Gen'l Jackson's official report. His mother was Coralie Jestas de
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Folmont, of an old South-of-France family. The son was care- fully educated by the Jesuits in France; a jury of the University of France awarded him a diploma as bachelor of letters, in 1866, and the next year he was made bachelor of sciences. He entered the Charity Hospital, as resident student, in 1866, and was gradu- ated from the medical department of the University of Louisiana in 1869, and immediately returned to France to pursue his medical studies. He passed the last examination by the faculty of Paris, which made him a doctor of medicine, and on the recommenda- tion of Prof. Melantos and Dr. Marion Sims, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the sixth international ambulance, in the Franco-German War. During the retreat of the Fifth Army Corps on the eve of the battle of Sedan he was mentioned in the orders of the day for "acts of bravery on the battle field." He saved not only his ambulance corps, but a large number of wounded in an improvised hospital that had been set on fire by the Prussian shells directed against the pontoon bridge in the rear. He planted the flag of the Red Cross Society on the roof of the building, which, in deference to the articles of the Geneva Convention, caused the Prussians to change the direction of their fire. The next day he rescued seventeen wounded from a burning house in Bruxelles during the heat of the battle. At the close of the war he bore the commission of full surgeon from Ct. de Flavigny, President of the Red Cross Society, acting under the government of Versailles during the outbreak of the French Commune, and organized and directed the ambulances of Chaville and Ville D'Array. The thanks of the Red Cross Society are recorded in highly complimentary documents with the presentation of all the surgical instruments used in his ambulance during the siege of Paris. In 1872, he returned to New Orleans and served as chief of clinic to Professors Richardson and Logan and, at different periods, visiting surgeon of the Charity Hospital. In 1876, he visited Nice, France, for his health, where he joined the medical society. In 1880, Gov. Witz selected him to take charge of the Charity Hospital. The Board of Administration, headed by Dr. Holliday, seconded his efforts to introduce a system of trained nurses, but then without success. Ten years later the manage- ment accepted the reform. At the same time Dr. Roaldes pro- jected the plans for an ambulance corps, since carried out by a successor.
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From 1887 to 1889, he made a special study of the eye, ear, nose, throat and chest, spending the spring and summer months in the hospitals of Europe. In 1889, he founded the eye, ear, nose and throat hospital of New Orleans and was made surgeon-in- chief, a position he still holds. In 1890, he was elected to the chair of Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat in the New Orleans Polytechnic School of Medicine. He took part in the International Congress of Berlin, in 1890, and was elected Vice-President of the Louisiana State Medical Society, in 1892, and corresponding member of the "Societe Francaise D'Otologie de Rhinologie et de Laryngologie." In 1892, he was made President of the Medical Society of the Parish of Orleans, a fellow of the Laryngological Association and a delegate from that association to the Inter- national Congress of Rome. In 1895, he was elected Vice-Presi- dent of the American Laryngological Association and one of the delegates to the British Laryngological Association and also to the Fifth International Congress of Otology, held in Florence. At that meeting he was named on the committee of organization for the next Otology International Congress, which assembled in London in 1899. Dr. Roaldes has contributed to the various medical journals at home and abroad, and is considered an authority on many subjects.
The Board of Directors of the Progressive Union, of New Orleans, after a careful consideration of the entire situation and canvass of the city, agreed, in 1905, upon Dr. A. W. de Roaldes as the citizen of all who had performed the most meritorious work in the interest of the whole citizenship during the year 1904. Hon. Dr. de Roaldes was elected President of the Laryngological Asso- ciation, at a recent Congress of the American Association, at Niagara Falls, which confers honor upon a New Orleans physician, who is now (1906) in Europe.
II. Alice Pandely, b. Oct. 1856; d. May 13, 1859.
III. Paul Pandely, b. Sept. 1858; d. Dec. 29, 1864. IV. Theophanie Pandely, b. Sept. 1860; d. Dec. 25, 1864.
V. Marie Pandely, b. Feb. 29, 1864; d. March 1, 1864.
VI. Josephine Pandely, b. -; d. about six months after.
VII. Laura Pandely (second), d. about four months after birth.
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VIII. Laura Pandely (third), youngest daughter of George Pandely and his wife, Ernestine Martainville, was b. March 2, 1874. Married (Dec. 16, 1890, in New Orleans) Alfred Taylor Pattison, who was b. in New Orleans, La .. Aug. 13, 1862, son of William T. Patti- son and Caroline Loveland, of New York City. Resi- dence. Staten Island, New York. They have issue :
I. Ruth Loveland Pattison, b. Nov. 7, 1897.
II. Marie Louise Martainville Pattison, b. Oct. 18, 1898.
III. Alfred Pandely Pattison, b. Feb. 19, 1901.
IV. George Pandely Pattison, b. June 12, 1906.
LAGARDE.
Marie Françoise Athenaïs Dimitry (widow Martainville) took for her second husband, May 26, 1835, John Baptiste Lagarde, son of Pierre Lagarde and Marie Françoise Beguin, of Blaye, Bordeaux, France. John Baptiste was born on his father's estate, in Bordeaux Canton, New Bordeaux, Department de la Gironde, May 25, 1793. He served in the Thirteenth Regiment Cuirassiers, Army of Lyons, under Marshal Soult, from November 27, 1811, through 1812 and 1813 to his honorable discharge, August 18, 1814. On his "Etat de Service" the following endorsement is written in French and signed, "Bréha, Brigadier General": "This young soldier entered the service early; he was twice wounded in battle; distinguished for bravery. Had his service extended over a longer period he would doubtless have made a distinguished record." He rose from the ranks to the position of "Marechal des Logis," corresponding to the post of "Quartermaster Sergeant" in the American Army, a non-commissioned officer. After his arrival in Louisiana he was employed as engineer in the con- struction of the new canal basin, New Orleans, and died January 22, 1842.
Pierre Lagarde, father of John Baptiste, was an officer in the Republican Navy and lost his life in a naval combat the same year his son was born.
The first record in the family history dates back to 1522 or '24, when Francis I was engaged in his war with Italy. At that
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time one Antoine Escalius des Aimards of Dauphine, France. a native of the borough Lagarde, entered the French Army as a soldier; being a bright man at a time when bright men were sought for, especially in the navy, he was transferred to that branch of the service and rapidly advanced. He held the position of "Naval Tactician." It was his good fortune to capture a doge of Venice whose ransom made him rich. This feat and the wealth it gave him aided in his advancement, and as none but those who bore titles could be commissioned officers in those days, he was ennobled by Francis I, under the title of Baron de Lagarde, his native borough, Lagarde, being his feoff.
Antoine Escalius des Almards Baron de Lagarde engaged in privateering against Spain, and accumulated great wealth, which he invested in estates and stock raising. In the time of Louis XV, the age of complex etiquette, we find existing an hereditary office called Farmer General, held by the Lagarde family. They had a fine suburban residence called the "Court Neuve," where Madame Lagarde, the chatelaine, held high court, whose salons were frequented not only by courtiers but by men of science and letters, such as Voltaire, D'Alembert, Diderot, Marmontel and Grimm. Later on we have another picture in 1793, when we find Chauveau Lagarde, a brilliant young lawyer, selected by the help- less deposed queen, Marie Antoinette, to defend her at her death trial October 14. There was a churchman in the family at this time known as Toncasse du Pozen.
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