Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . of Washington—the painterwas reticent on all matters, and especially about this mystery may never be solved, for Washington died atthe school, and I have failed of all information thence aselsewhere. CHAPTER XXVI SOME HISTORY BUILDERS ICI REPOSE M. A. LAURE VILLERE, epouse du majorG T. Beauregard, nee le 22 Mai, 1823, decedee le 21 Mars,1850. Esprit descendu du del, tu y es remonte:dors en paix, fille, epouse et mere cherie. In the old country graveyard at Florissant, the plantationhome of the Beauregard family in St. Bernard Parish, Louis-iana,
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . of Washington—the painterwas reticent on all matters, and especially about this mystery may never be solved, for Washington died atthe school, and I have failed of all information thence aselsewhere. CHAPTER XXVI SOME HISTORY BUILDERS ICI REPOSE M. A. LAURE VILLERE, epouse du majorG T. Beauregard, nee le 22 Mai, 1823, decedee le 21 Mars,1850. Esprit descendu du del, tu y es remonte:dors en paix, fille, epouse et mere cherie. In the old country graveyard at Florissant, the plantationhome of the Beauregard family in St. Bernard Parish, Louis-iana, one may read this ten-der inscription on the stonethat covers the grave of thebeautiful daughter of a greatcolonial family, who was inthis life the wife of a greatConfederate general. Trans-lated it reads: Spirit fromHeaven, thou hast returned;there sleep in peace, beloveddaughter, wife and moth-er. This sequestered grave re-calls the union of two greatCreole families, the Villeres,of the old Magnoliaplantations, and the Toutant 293. mrs. g. t. beauregard(laure villere) de Beauregard, of 294 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAIN & OF THE SIXTIES which the maternal strain was the famous de Reggio. How far back the Welsh Toutant family dates there isno record; though its position and leadership in Wales in-dicate a long line of its chiefs; the first of whom I find accuratehistoric detail is Tider the Young, who headed the lastrebellion of Wales, before Edward First brought that prov-ince under the English crown 1281 A. D. Defeated andcaptured, Tider escaped and fled to France with a priceupon his head. Still a youth in his teens, his prowess andfine person gained him service under Philip IV (the Fair).They gained him moreover, as wife, Mile, de Lafayette,who was in the suite of the princess, the kings was hot between the two nations and Henry sum-moned Edward to France to acknowledge his suzeraintyof the fortresses in Guienne. War was imminent, but wasaverted by Edwards propo
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