More about Felicite Thanks for all of the feedback and interest in our great, great, great “grand mere” Felicite Constant! I decided I needed to do a bit more research to understand her life. My dad gave me yet another very informative book by historian Carl J. Ekberg. This one is titled “Francois Valle and His World”. Valle was a wealthy man who lived in the same general area (Upper Louisiana/Illinois Country) in roughly the same time period (1780-90s) when the area West of the Mississippi was under control of the Spanish Crown. I’ve used Ekberg’s description of Valle and his life to extrapolate information about Felicite and her family. As we know, Felicite was born in 1783 in Carondolet, Missouri, a small agricultural town just south of St. Louis. Felicite was a French Creole, which means a French-speaking person born in the French colonial territories outside of France. Technically the area Felicite lived in was under Spanish control at the time of her birth, but Felicite w
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