Saint Venant

Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, known as Saint-Venant, was born on August 23, 1797, at the château de Fortoiseau in Villiers-en-Bière, Seine-et-Marne, France. His mother, Marie-Thérèse Josèphe Laborie, was born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and his father, Jean Barré de Saint-Venant, served as a colonial officer on the Isle of Saint-Domingue....