Sources of Primary Material


(1) the Municipal Archives of Toulouse

(2) the Departmental Archives of Toulouse

(3) the French military archives of the Château de Vincennes in Paris

(4) the Archives in Martinique

(5) the Registers of the Roman Catholic Church in St. Lucia

(6) the Archives of Saint-Malo

(7) the Archives of Castres (Tarn, France)

(8) the documents found at the Château de Frouzin

(9) the letters and pictures provided by Jérôme Himely

(10) the Archives of Rennes

(11) the Archives of Fougères

Equally important was the family oral history passed down from one generation to another through the author's great grandmother, grandfather, granduncle, mother, aunt, and cousin.
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