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Michel MUZARD de
Saint-Michel
+Marie ROSSIGNOL
│
└──
Michel MUZARD de Saint-Michel,
born 26 Apr 1755 Caen, France; died 28 Apr 1821 Toulouse.
*
+Jeanne
CHOPIN (widow, née ELUARD), married 15 Oct 1788
Port
Louis, Ile de France│[now Mauritius].
│
└──
Jeanne
Michelle Marie Bonne Eléonore MUZARD,
born
8 October 1780 Port Louis,
Ile de France;
died
3 Jun 1833.
Poet.
+Jean
Pierre Jacques Auguste DE
LABOUISSE-ROCHEFORT; married 28 Sep
1802.
Writer and poet.
* MICHEL Muzard (1755-1821) became the step-father of our direct
ancestor, John
Francis
Chopin
(1774-1835), when he married John's mother, Jeanne, in 1788.
Muzard owned extensive property in Haiti and Cuba, and enjoyed
a
considerable fortune off the coffee, tobacco, sugar, and cotton trades.
After the Haiti rebellion, such sources of income were cut off and he
slid deeper and deeper into debt. It's hard
to feel too sorry for him, considering that his wealth was the product
of slavery. However, the loss seems to have influenced his son-in-law Auguste when he recorded a tale about a
wizard who almost succeeds in grasping the
Devil's riches, only to be thwarted at the last moment
by a bunch of treacherous villagers. This fiction, included in
Auguste's
travel memoir 'Voyage à Rennes-les-Bains'
(1832), was later appropriated by conspiracy theorists to
shore up
the myth of a secret treasure sealed in nearby
Rennes-le-Château. In 2003 the "mystery" of Rennes-le-Château went
viral, with the publication of Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code'.
