Virginie Am Lie Avegno Gautreau

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Virginie Amélie Gautreau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 29, 1859, the daughter of Anatole Placide Avegno (July 3, 1835- April 1862) and Marie Virginie de Ternant, of Parlange Plantation. Her parents were white Creoles; her father was of paternal Italian ancestry, and her mother was a descendant of French nobility. In 1867, at the age of eight, Virginie and her mother moved to France where they quickly ensconced themselves in the highest echelons of French society. Her father, son of Philippe Avegno and Catherine Genois, had served as a Major in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War; and he had died in 1862 of a leg wound he received in the Battle of Shiloh. He was the commander of the Avegno Zouaves of New Orleans, a cosmopolitan battalion which had French, Spanish, Mexican, Irish, Italian, and Chinese soldiers amongst its six companies.