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Jeanne Adrienne Viallier de Montluzin de Lappe
October 23, 1855 - December 19, 1913
Jeanne Adrienne Viallier de Montluzin was bom in Luneville in the French province of Lorraine. She was only an infant when her mother, Reine Helluy de Montluzin, took her, along with her five-year-old brother Joseph Alfred and a servant girl, to America to join her father, Ludovic Adrien de Montluzin, and her older brother Ferdinand. Ludovic, an opponent of Napoleon Ill?s dictatorship, had emigrated from France a year earlier in order to establish a home for his young family in Louisiana, where he had accepted a teaching position at Jefferson College, a boys? school in the town of Convent. Jeanne was too young to remember that three-month voyage on a sailing vessel. For her, America would be home, though her family remained French to the core.
When the Civil War began, the students at Jefferson College joined the Confederate Army and the school closed. Jeanne?s father organized a number of his emigre friends into the French Company of St. James Parish, serving as its captain-commander and commissioned by Governor Moore to patrol the Mississippi River from Donaldsonville to New Orleans. After the Civil War he established his own lycee, the Ecole Classique et Commerciale, at 122 Conti Street in New Orleans, where he was headmaster until his retirement, following a heart attack, to Bay St. Louis in 1874.
Jeanne was nineteen she moved to Bay St. Louis, and she was soon to find herself entrusted with important responsibilities in her family. When a deadly yellow fever epidemic broke out in Louisiana and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, her mother Reine decided to take Jeanne?s younger brother Rene and sister Corinne to France to visit her family in Paris. They were there for two years. Despite the danger, Jeanne stayed at home to keep house for her father and her brother Alfred. During those months she became engaged to C. K. de Lappe and devoted her spare time before her marriage to making her trousseau dresses and describing the results in letters to her mother.
Jeanne had two daughters, Alice Whitney and Adrienne Sporl, who lived in Bay St. Louis until their own marriages. She and her husband, whom she outlived by seven years, were buried side by side in a small fenced plot in Cedar Rest Cemetery.
[Account prepared by Emily Hosmer de Montluzin and Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, June 2013]