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R. Martin Guidry

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Feb 27, 2021, 10:41:48 PM2/27/21
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Subject: "Generations" newsletter of Les Guédry et Petitpas d'Asteur

Bonjour Cousins,

Attached is our latest issue of "Generations", the newsletter of Les Guédry et Petitpas d'Asteur.  In this issue we focus on the Acadians deported to Massachusetts with two articles.- "Acadian Historical Sites of Massachusetts" and "A Unique Gift from Two Acadians to Their British Landlord".  There is also information on our upcoming Reunion in Rayne, LA during October 2021 Grand Reveil Acadien as well as the always interesting Historical Tidbits, Book Nook and Bon Appetit.

On 24 March 2021 I will be chairing a panel as part of the 2021 Louisiana History Association Annual Meeting entitled "Legacies of the German-Acadian Coast".  It will be a zoom panel from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Central Standard Time.  The three superb presenters will be:Andreas Hübner from Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany; Francis Kolb Turnbell of the Tennessee Historical Society (Nashville, TN) and Fernin F. Eaton of St. Francisville, LA.  Jay Schexnaydre, assistant manager of Laura Plantation in Vacherie, LA and President of the German-Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society, will offer discerning comments on the presentations.  The meeting is free and available to the general public.  

The German-Acadian Coast is an area on the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana covering the parishes of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist and St. James just above New Orleans.  Originally settled by the Germans in the 1720s, this area also became home to early Acadian arrivals in the 1760s.
You can learn more about the panel by clicking on the link below.  This link will also let you join the zoom meeting on 24 March.  Thanks to Fernin Eaton for organizing the panel.


On another note - we are about to have our first astronaut with an Acadian surname.  Hayley Arceneaux was recently selected as one of four crew members for the all-civilian SpaceX Inspiration4 mission to lift off near the end of 2021.  This three to four day mission will circle the earth every 90 minutes.  Hayley will be the crew's Chief Medical Officer on the flight.  One goal of Inspiration4 is to raise $200 million for St. Jude Hospital.

Hayley is a bone cancer survivor - beating the disease at age 10 at St. Jude Hospital.  During her treatment she had a titanium rod inserted in her left thigh.  At age 29 Hayley will be the youngest astronaut, the first Acadian in space and the first American in space with a prosthesis.  With childhood dreams of devoting her life to St. Jude Hospital and going to space one day, Hayley became a physician assistant and currently works at St. Jude.  This flight will fulfill what seemed to be an impossible dream of a young girl struggling to live. 

The daughter of Howard and Colleen Arceneaux, Hayley was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in the nearby town of St. Francisville, LA.  In 2003 Hayley received the Louisiana Young Heroes Award.  You can read more about the Hayley and the Inspiration4 flight at the link below:  Hayley's father Howard was adopted by Jess Arceneaux as a young boy when Howard's father U. S. Army Captain Howard Eakin Jr. was killed while flying a medevac mission in 1963 in the Vietnam War.  Howard's mother Mary Ellen Matteo Eakin remarried to Jess Arceneaux.  The extended Arceneaux family took in Howard as a son and he used the Arceneaux surname throughout his life.  Jess Arceneaux's heritage traces back to Pierre Arceneaux and Marguerite Dugas, founders of the Acadian Arsenault line.  We can certainly take great pride in Hayley - our soon-to-be first astronaut with an Acadian surname.


On a lighter note, Hayley actually follows our first Acadian in space although his flight in the early 1960s has almost been forgotten. 

First Acadian on Moon
Unknown to most people, in the late 1950s the Canadians had a top secret space program. Formally called the Canadian Lunar Landing Initiative, its goal was to land a human on the moon. In 1958 Lieutenant Baptiste-Sévère Petitpas, an Acadian of Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, was selected in the first class of Canadian astronauts. In 1961 Lt. Petitpas blasted into space on his epic journey to the moon. As he orbited the moon prior to his descent to the surface, Lt. Petitpas scribbled a few words on a notepad hoping they would be remembered and make him famous. After a successful descent to the moon's surface, he announced to the world those few epic words ... "Un petit pas pour un homme, un pas énorme pour l'humanité". Ingeniously finding a way to include his surname in his message to Earth, Lt. Petitpas secured his fame - he thought.
Almost a decade later in 1969, the Americans successfully landed their first astronauts on the moon. As American astronaut Neil Armstrong descended to the surface from the lunar lander, he remembered that earlier Acadian pioneer, B-S Petitpas, and translated his short note of 1961: "A small step for man, a giant step for mankind."
And now you know the rest of the story.
Thanks to Archbishop Gérard Pettipas of the Diocese of Alberta, Canada for reminding me of this historic event in Acadian history.

Have a nice Spring and stay safe and healthy,

Marty


"Generations" - Winter 2021.pdf

tugdual.d...@wanadoo.fr

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Feb 28, 2021, 5:21:22 AM2/28/21
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Bonjour,
 
Merci pour votre documentation.

Connaissez-vous les livres que j’ai écrits :
 

·     L'armateur préféré de Beaumarchais … Jean Peltier Dudoyer, de Nantes à l'Isle de France, Tugdual de Langlais, Coiffard Éditions, Nantes, 2015, 340 p. (ISBN 9782919339280). Ce livre n’est plus disponible sur Internet, mais seulement auprès de moi.

·     Marie-Étienne Peltier Capitaine corsaire de la République : 1762-1810, Tugdual de Langlais, Coiffard Éditions, Nantes, 2017, 240 p. (ISBN 9782919339471).

Prix de l'Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire, Médaille d'or de l'Académie d'Angers, Mention de l'Académie de Marine à Paris.

 

Ces deux livres ont un chapitre commun “Le dernier voyage des Acadiens vers la Louisiane”. Jean Peltier Dudoyer était l’armateur de 2 navires : Le Bon Papa et le Saint-Rémy, Marie-Étienne Peltier (son fils) était second capitaine du Bon Papa.

 

Cordialement.

Tugdual de Langlais

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R. Martin Guidry

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Feb 28, 2021, 7:58:51 AM2/28/21
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Merci, Tugadal.

I have bought both of your books and enjoyed them.  I will try to review one in our next newsletter.

Martin

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Feb 28, 2021, 11:14:50 AM2/28/21
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Re-bonjour,

 

Je vous mets en pièce jointe les travaux que j'ai faits. Les biographies que j'ai faites pour Wikipédia peuvent vous aider à rédiger une information.

 

Nicolas Baudin, était un neveu de Jean Peltier Dudoyer et il commandait le dernier bateau qui est parti avec des Acadiens de Nantes, vers la Louisiane. Il a été le témoin au mariage de Marie-Étienne, et est mort à son retour d'Australie à l'Ile Maurice où vivait le frère de Jean Peltier Dudoyer.

 

Je vous joins un article qui vient de paraitre dans le Télégramme (200.000 exemplaires) sur Charles de Ruis-Embito. Sa fille avait épousé Marie Augustin de Langlais, capitaine de cavalerie. Je leur ai donné les éléments, ils étaient enchantés

Le Télégramme du 28 février 2021.pdf
Liens bios Wikipédia, les livres et les sites.docx

Roberta Estes

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Mar 3, 2021, 5:57:23 PM3/3/21
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Marty,

 

Thank you so very much for this which includes the Massachusetts information. My ancestors were lost someplace in “New England,” according to the church register, before appearing in L’Acadie near Montreal.

 

Roberta

 

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Subject: "Generations" newsletter of Les Guédry et Petitpas d'Asteur

Bonjour Cousins,

 

Attached is our latest issue of "Generations", the newsletter of Les Guédry et Petitpas d'Asteur.  In this issue we focus on the Acadians deported to Massachusetts with two articles.- "Acadian Historical Sites of Massachusetts" and "A Unique Gift from Two Acadians to Their British Landlord".  There is also information on our upcoming Reunion in Rayne, LA during October 2021 Grand Reveil Acadien as well as the always interesting Historical Tidbits, Book Nook and Bon Appetit.

 

On 24 March 2021 I will be chairing a panel as part of the 2021 Louisiana History Association Annual Meeting entitled "Legacies of the German-Acadian Coast".  It will be a zoom panel from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Central Standard Time.  The three superb presenters will be:Andreas Hübner from Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany; Francis Kolb Turnbell of the Tennessee Historical Society (Nashville, TN) and Fernin F. Eaton of St. Francisville, LA.  Jay Schexnaydre, assistant manager of Laura Plantation in Vacherie, LA and President of the German-Acadian Coast Historical and Genealogical Society, will offer discerning comments on the presentations.  The meeting is free and available to the general public.  

 

The German-Acadian Coast is an area on the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana covering the parishes of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist and St. James just above New Orleans.  Originally settled by the Germans in the 1720s, this area also became home to early Acadian arrivals in the 1760s.

You can learn more about the panel by clicking on the link below.  This link will also let you join the zoom meeting on 24 March.  Thanks to Fernin Eaton for organizing the panel.

 

 

On another note - we are about to have our first astronaut with an Acadian surname.  Hayley Arceneaux was recently selected as one of four crew members for the all-civilian SpaceX Inspiration4 mission to lift off near the end of 2021.  This three to four day mission will circle the earth every 90 minutes.  Hayley will be the crew's Chief Medical Officer on the flight.  One goal of Inspiration4 is to raise $200 million for St. Jude Hospital.

 

Hayley is a bone cancer survivor - beating the disease at age 10 at St. Jude Hospital.  During her treatment she had a titanium rod inserted in her left thigh.  At age 29 Hayley will be the youngest astronaut, the first Acadian in space and the first American in space with a prosthesis.  With childhood dreams of devoting her life to St. Jude Hospital and going to space one day, Hayley became a physician assistant and currently works at St. Jude.  This flight will fulfill what seemed to be an impossible dream of a young girl struggling to live. 

 

The daughter of Howard and Colleen Arceneaux, Hayley was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in the nearby town of St. Francisville, LA.  In 2003 Hayley received the Louisiana Young Heroes Award.  You can read more about the Hayley and the Inspiration4 flight at the link below:  Hayley's father Howard was adopted by Jess Arceneaux as a young boy when Howard's father U. S. Army Captain Howard Eakin Jr. was killed while flying a medevac mission in 1963 in the Vietnam War.  Howard's mother Mary Ellen Matteo Eakin remarried to Jess Arceneaux.  The extended Arceneaux family took in Howard as a son and he used the Arceneaux surname throughout his life.  Jess Arceneaux's heritage traces back to Pierre Arceneaux and Marguerite Dugas, founders of the Acadian Arsenault line.  We can certainly take great pride in Hayley - our soon-to-be first astronaut with an Acadian surname.

 

 

On a lighter note, Hayley actually follows our first Acadian in space although his flight in the early 1960s has almost been forgotten. 

 

First Acadian on Moon

Unknown to most people, in the late 1950s the Canadians had a top secret space program. Formally called the Canadian Lunar Landing Initiative, its goal was to land a human on the moon. In 1958 Lieutenant Baptiste-Sévère Petitpas, an Acadian of Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, was selected in the first class of Canadian astronauts. In 1961 Lt. Petitpas blasted into space on his epic journey to the moon. As he orbited the moon prior to his descent to the surface, Lt. Petitpas scribbled a few words on a notepad hoping they would be remembered and make him famous. After a successful descent to the moon's surface, he announced to the world those few epic words ... "Un petit pas pour un homme, un pas énorme pour l'humanité". Ingeniously finding a way to include his surname in his message to Earth, Lt. Petitpas secured his fame - he thought.

Almost a decade later in 1969, the Americans successfully landed their first astronauts on the moon. As American astronaut Neil Armstrong descended to the surface from the lunar lander, he remembered that earlier Acadian pioneer, B-S Petitpas, and translated his short note of 1961: "A small step for man, a giant step for mankind"

And now you know the rest of the story.

Thanks to Archbishop Gérard Pettipas of the Diocese of Alberta, Canada for reminding me of this historic event in Acadian history.

 

Have a nice Spring and stay safe and healthy,

 

Marty


 

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R. Martin Guidry

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Mar 3, 2021, 9:25:30 PM3/3/21
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Thanks for the nice comments, Roberta.  I am glad you enjoyed the newsletter. 

Marty

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Fred LeBlanc

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Mar 4, 2021, 1:02:31 PM3/4/21
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                Hi Marty

                Enjoyed the Newsletter.

                Keep up the good work

                Take care, keep safe and healty

                Fred LeBlanc

                Fredericton NB Canada

 

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R. Martin Guidry

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Mar 4, 2021, 2:40:43 PM3/4/21
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Thanks for the nice comments, Fred.  I really appreciate them.  And I am glad you found it useful.

Marty

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R. Martin Guidry

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Sep 13, 2021, 7:14:48 PM9/13/21
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Thanks for the note.  I included your books in our last newsletter - Summer 2021 - attached.

I really appreciate you writing the books and including the Louisiana Acadians.

Martin

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Sep 14, 2021, 4:15:21 AM9/14/21
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Bonjour,

 

Je viens de recevoir votre mail, merci d'avoir informé vos adhérents de la parution de mes livres.

 

Je peux leur en envoyer si ils me payent par Paypall.  Le livre sur Jean Peltier Dudoyer est épuisé en librairie, ils m'en restent quelques-uns, celui de Marie-Étienne est disponible en librairie, je peux aussi l’envoyer.

 

Dimanche dernier il est paru dans l'hebdomadaire mauricien Week-end un article sur le rôle de Jean Peltier dans la guerre d'indépendance américaine. Et le 29 aout un article sur sa demande de l'abolition de l'esclavage à l'Isle de France (aujourd'hui l'Ile Maurice).

 

J'ai vécu moi aussi dans l'Océan Indien, à Madagascar. Nous nous sommes installés en France en 1962, nous retournons souvent à l'Ile Maurice où mes ancêtres ont vécu.

 

Je vous joins l'article du 29 aout.

 

Après la publication de mes livres j'ai continué à travailler sur la vie de Marie-Étienne Peltier. J'ai découvert qu'il était mort à Foulpointe (Madagascar) empoisonné par une malgache qui lui devait de l'argent… Il faut reconnaitre qu'il devait faire de la traite négrière.

 

Quand Marie-Étienne Peltier était à la Nouvelle-Orléans il a acheté une propriété à Joseph Xavier Delfau de Pontalba. Un mois après il la lui revendait.

 

A-t-il perdu au jeu ? Ou voulait-il repartir ?

 

J'ai retrouvé son nom rayé sur le rôle d'un bateau vers la France.

 

Je pense qu'il a pu partir avec son cousin Nicolas Baudin qui est parti de la Nouvelle-Orléans le 4 mars 1786 vers Saint-Domingue, puis l'Isle de France.

 

Existe-t-il des listes d'embarquement ou encore des rôles de navires ?

 

Quelqu'un pourrait-il faire une recherche pour le départ de Marie-Étienne et de Nicolas Baudin.

Nicolas Baudin est mort à l'Ile Maurice où vivait Louis Peltier, le frère de Jean Peltier Dudoyer.

 

Vous pouvez consulter mon travail en cliquant sur :

 

http://www.delanglais.fr/Peltier/html/documentsTL.html

 

Extrait du site www.delanglais.fr/index

 

Mon mail est très long et en français, j'espère que ce ne sera pas trop dur pour vous.

 

Bien cordialement.

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