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Some sources speculate that Lafitte was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (known as Haiti since it gained independence in 1804). [4] [5] In the late 18th century, adult children of the French planters in Saint-Domingue often resettled along the Mississippi River in La Louisiane, especially in its largest city of New Orleans.
According to Davis's book, Lafitte was born in or near Pauillac, France and was the son of Pierre Lafitte and Marie LaGrange, who married in 1769. LaGrange died the following year, likely while she gave birth. The elder Pierre Lafitte remarried in 1775 to Marguerite Desteil; they had six children, including Jean Lafitte.
Children Phen LaFitte Jaques Voignier , also known as Jean Pierre LaFitte , was a prolific French and American criminal and confidential informant, eventually operating as an undercover spy for the American Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) in the pursuit of criminal narcotics and mafia organizations around the world. [ 1 ]
LaFitte, of Glenora, California, is a 20th-century descendant of Jean Lafitte who in Edgar Rice Burroughs's story "Pirate Blood," part of The Wizard of Venus novella, gets to the distant Vulture's Island, where his pirate heredity asserts itself in a modern piratical career full of cold-blooded murders and rapes. [23] Captain Leatherwing
Charles Sallier moved to Lake Charles and married the LeBleus' daughter, Catherine. They settled near Lake Charles (the lake) and had six children. As legend tells it, one day Charles Sallier thought that Catherine was having an affair with the famous pirate, Jean Lafitte. In rage, he shot at his wife and assumed she was dead.
Here's everything you need to know about Oppenheimer's two children and what has happened in the 56 years since their father's death. J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine, daughter Kit and son ...
The town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, languished under several feet of floodwater on August 30, after a 10- to 12-foot storm surge topped levees in the area when Hurricane Ida hit on August 29 ...
Robert and Myra welcomed their first son, Jonathan, on March 4, 1964, according to Harvard Business School Alumni.After Jonathan graduated from Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in ...