Armand Duplantier

Armand Gabriel Allard du Plantier (1753 - 9 Oct 1827) was a French cavalry officer who served in the American Revolutionary War as an aide-de-camp to General Lafayette.[1][2]

Armand was born in Voiron, France, the son of Joseph Antoine Guy Allard du Plantier (1721–1801)[3] and Gabrielle Trenonay de Chanfrey.[4]

In 1781, he moved to Louisiana (New Spain), settling on the plantation of his uncle, Claude Trénonay, in the area of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana. He married his uncle's stepdaughter, Marie Augustine Gerard; the couple had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Marie Augustine died of yellow fever in 1799. In 1802 Duplantier remarried, to widow Constance Rochon Joyce, and the couple resided part of the time in their country house at Mount Magnolia plantation (which property today is within the city of Baton Rouge and owned by that city). Five more children were born of this union.[5][6]

Duplantier was disturbed by the 1794 slave revolt which occurred locally. It was called the Pointe Coupée Conspiracy and reminded him of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). He was a slave-owner and regretted that he had bought some Saint-Domingue slaves, but he did not want to sell them until they regained their value.[7]

Armand Duplantier helped to establish a college in Baton Rouge in 1822. A few years later, he was part of the delegation which welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette, during his American tour.[8]

In 1827, Duplantier, Fulwar Skipwith, Antoine Blanc, Thomas B. Robertson, and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the Louisiana State Legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge.[9] Armand Duplantier died the same year and was given military honors at his funeral, in tribute to his Revolutionary War service.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ Armand Duplantier: Father of Our Independence, on Yahoo accessed 23 July 2012
  2. ↑ Duplantier's memorial on Find A Grave, accessed 11 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Family History accessed 3 August 2012
  4. ↑ Gabrielle Trenonay de Chanfrey accessed 3 August 2012
  5. ↑ DuPlantier Family History accessed 10 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Armand Duplantier Family Letters, Mss. 5060, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16313coll34 accessed 16 January 2015.
  7. ↑ Letter of January 10, 1795 accessed 23 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Louisiana Digital Library accessed 10 April 2015.
  9. ↑ A general digest of the acts of the legislature of Louisiana, Vol II accessed 1 July 2012
  10. ↑ Louisiana Digital Library accessed 10 April 2015.

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