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Unlike many other Native
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Catholic Church after learning the precepts of Christianity. Other Native wives including Anne's godmother Angelique, the widow of St. Denis's servant, Charles Dumont, did not know how to read or write. That respect allowed her children, although being
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Villere Pierre
Brevelle (1899–1977), owner of the historic Brevelle Farm along the Red River in Brouillette, Louisiana, is a lineal descendant of Anne des Cadeaux. His name and the names of several of his children are on the dedication fencing at St. Genevieve Catholic
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to marry her. After the publication of three banns, Jean and Anne were married in 1736 in the
Catholic Church in Natchitoches. Anne bore two children, who would become the first Creoles and settlers of
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of early colonial
Louisiana. Her story and that of both of her Creole children are documented in the records of the Catholic Church and in interviews conducted by Indian Agent John Sibley after the
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Louisiana's first U.S. Governor, in 1804 reported to the U.S. Congress that the Isle Brevelle was named for its earliest settler, Jean Baptiste Brevelle, Jr..
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Her husband’s military and trade assignments took them to various
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languages and customs, worked as the famed translator, arbitrator, explorer, and soldier for the French and
Spanish crowns. For his service, he was issued a large
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is defined as native-born people of ethnic
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Natchitoches. Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana 1729-1803
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