Hugues de La Vergne b. 06 Sep 1792 New Orleans, Louisiana d. 16 Sep 1843 New Orleans, Louisiana: Stewart

1792 - 1843 (51 years)

Name	Hugues de La Vergne
Born	06 Sep 1792	New Orleans, Louisiana
Gender	Male
Died	16 Sep 1843	New Orleans, Louisiana
Person ID	I2253	Stewart
Last Modified	4 Jan 2016

Father	Count Pierre de la Vergne, b. Brive la Gaillard, Limousin, France , d. 31 Jan 1813, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mother	Marie Elizabeth du Vergier Marié, b. 14 Aug 1763, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 27 Aug 1807, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 44 years)
Married	29 Oct 1780	New Orleans, Louisiana [1]
Family ID	F2398	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family	Marie Adéle de Villeré, b. 11 Nov 1791, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 17 Nov 1859, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 68 years)
Married	07 Oct 1813	New Orleans, Louisiana [2]
Notes	Married: Hugues de la Vergne, on October 13, 1813, married Marie Adéle de Villeré, daughter of General Jacques Philippe de Villeré and Jeanne Henrietta de Fazende. [3]
Last Modified	4 Jan 2016
Family ID	F749	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 06 Sep 1792 - New Orleans, Louisiana
	Married - 07 Oct 1813 - New Orleans, Louisiana
	Died - 16 Sep 1843 - New Orleans, Louisiana

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Notes

One child was born of his marriage to Elizabeth Duverjé (originally spelled du Vergier)--a son Hugues, upon whom was conferred every educational advantage that wealth and accomplished teachers could afford. With the aim of entering the Polytechnique School of Paris, he devotes his time chiefly to the study of mathematics. The dream of the young man's life was to cross the ocean, reach Paris, and enter this school.
After a year in Paris, the youth returned to New Orleans--he was then nineteen--with a tale of remarkable adventures in the capital of France. He had not entered the Polytechnique. He did not spend his days as a student locked in a schoolroom--he spent most of his time as an inmate of the prison La Force, and some of the other political goals. This was due to the treachery of a false friend, a former French army officer Hugues had met in Philadelphia when on his way to France. The motive for the latter's action appears to have been to obtain easy possession of several thousand francs, which he had secured from the young Louisianian who, he thought, imprisoned on a false charge of conspiring against the Emperor Napoleon's authority, never would be heard of again. Through the efforts of the Marquis de Lafayette and other friends, young de la Vergne was released after a year's incarceration and the end of 1812 found him again in New Orleans.
One child was born of his marriage to Elizabeth Duverjé (originally spelled du Vergier)--a son Hugues, upon whom was conferred every educational advantage that wealth and accomplished teachers could afford. With the aim of entering the Polytechnique School of Paris, he devotes his time chiefly to the study of mathematics. The dream of the young man's life was to cross the ocean, reach Paris, and enter this school.
After a year in Paris, the youth returned to New Orleans--he was then ninetten--with a tale of remarkable adventures in the capital of France. He had not entered the Polytechnique. He did not spend his days as a student locked in a schoolroom--he spent most of his time as an inmate of the prison La Force, and some of the other political goals. This was due to the treachery of a false friend, a former French army officer Hugues had met in Philadelphia when on his way to France. The motive for the latter's action appears to have been to obtain easy possession of several thousand francs, which he had secured from the young Louisianian who, he thought, imprisoned on a false charge of conspiring against the Emperor Napoleon's authority, never would be heard of again. Through the efforts of the Marquis de Lafayette and other friends, young de la Vergne was released after a year's incarceration and the end of 1812 found him again in New Orleans.

Sources

[S49] Old Families of Louisiana, Stanley Clisby Arthur, (Harmanson, 1931), 60.
[S12] Archdiocese of N.O. Sacr. Rec. v11 (1813-1815), Earl C. Woods, (New Orleans, La. : Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987), F379 .N553 W66 1987 REF V.11., 434 (Reliability: 3).
Adela Maria (Santiago Phelipe and Henrrieta FAZENDE), native and resident of this parish, m. Hugo LAVERGNE, Oct. 7, 1813
(SLC, M6, 132)
[S49] Old Families of Louisiana, Stanley Clisby Arthur, (Harmanson, 1931), 61.