An edition of Sir, You have probably been informed, by the public papers, that we were recommended by the French government, to claim an estate of one of our ancestors (M. De Cardillac [sic], governor of Louisiana,) but you are doubtless a stranger to the troubles and miseries to which we have been reduced (1790)

Sir, You have probably been informed, by the public papers, that we were recommended by the French government, to claim an estate of one of our ancestors (M. De Cardillac [sic], governor of Louisiana,) but you are doubtless a stranger to the troubles and miseries to which we have been reduced.

By Maria Theresa De Gregoire