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Anne Fran?oise, baptized 9 April 1680
Gabrielle, baptized 1 September 1682
Therese, baptized 26 April 1690
Honnore, baptized 17 June 1693 (six weeks after his oldest brother married in	Rochefort)
Angelin Arluc died on 11 May 1694, at only 42 years of age.
His wife survived him by 30 years, dying on 24 October 1724.
The Dictionnaire etymologique des noms de famille et prenoms de France says that the name Arluc derives from the name of an ancient convent near Cannes.
Further investigation reveals that there was indeed a monastery for women located on a small hill to the west of Cannes, near the river Siagne. The site of the monastery, now the location of a chapel called St. Cassien, was once a temple dedicated to Venus, located in a sacred wood. The Romans called the site Ara luci, for the temple located there. That name became Arluc, and applied to both the monastery and a small town nearby, both now long gone.
The place name became a common surname in that area in earlier times: in 1673, the year of Jean Arluc?s birth, six children sumamed Arluc or Arluque were baptized, out of about 137 total baptisms in Cannes. Today, the online telephone directory for France carries only six listings for persons named Arluc in the entire country.
Cannes evokes images of yachts, expensive villas on the French Riviera, elegant shopping, and an international film festival that attracts the rich and famous from all over the world. No resident of seventeenth-century Cannes would have predicted such a future for his town, however. At that time, Cannes was a small community, built on a rocky hill overlooking the Mediterranean. The local water supply could not support serious agriculture, so the inhabitants turned to the sea, as fishermen and coral gatherers, for their livelihood. Others supported these maritime industries by their work as rope makers, ship?s carpenters, or caulkers, as in the case of Jean Arluc.
The job of the caulker was to seal the seams in the planking of a boat by hammering into them strips of oakum, hemp impregnated with pitch to make a water-tight seal. Their rights and responsibilities were defined by law, and their services were in great demand. The trade was considered something of a public service, and so they were not allowed to leave France to practice their profession.
Undoubtedly this trade led Jean Arluc from the small fishing town of Cannes to the port city of La Rochelle, where greater opportunities lay in ?caulking the ships of the King.? In La Rochelle, it appears he advanced to the role of ship?s carpenter, a skill which in turn made him valuable in the colony of Louisiana. He had little time to use his skills in Louisiana, however, for he died only six years after his arrival there, in October 1725.