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Part two... But that barrel my ancestor was supposed to have been in--that provides something for the imagination to play around with! And many Ladues have worked it over and there are several versions of it still going around. We now know that Pierre was married when he came to America and had two or three little children. So was his wife also carried on ship-board in her barrel? And what about the children--were they each in their own little barrels as well? I can see them all lined up there, all with their holes bored in their barrels so they could breath! And wherever they were stowed away, those soldiers of the Monarch didn't find them, although the ship was held up for three days while they searched, according to the story. Some Ladues have forgotten it was because our Pierre was a Huguenot and tell it that he was trying to avoid military duty in the army. Some called the barrel a wine-cask. This gave others room to discredit the story because they rightly pointed out that a man would have to be awfully small to get into a wine cask! Though one LaDue I found who said, "I never heard my ancestor had to get out of France", apparently feeling some sort of disgrace was implied. Others tell it that he was a Count or a Duke or something high up in the Court, and to add even more to the dramatic effect, say he was the only one by that name who escaped on that Eve of St. Bartholemews Day massacre.
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