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Marie Anne Giraudon departed Hôpital-Général de la Salpêtrière of Paris on June 1720 at the age of 21. She sailed aboard La Baleine with 88 other orphan girls, accompanied by Sister Gertrude from the Hôpital-Général, anchoring off the Gulf Coast at Mobile Bay on 8 Jan 1721. These girls had come to Louisiane to marry, much like the filles du roi came to Quebec.

m.2 Jean B. Moreau, son of Joseph Moreau and Jeanne Damouret, native of Port Louis, resident of New Orleans. Marriage contract 7 Jan 1735. Excerpt: 'Provisions made for the four children of the Widow VIGER. This marriage to be solemnized in the Holy Roman Apostolic Catholic Church An inventory to be taken of property at Illinois. Done in the presence of NICOLAS HENRY, the appointed registrar and LOUIS HUGAULT, recorder "