When he became old he divided his twenty-one acres
between three of his family, Marianne, Louis, and Michel, and gave a
corresponding sum of money to his younger daughter Laure, who had been
brought up as a sempstress and was in service at Chateaudun. La Terre.
FOUAN (LAURE), younger daughter of the preceding. See Madame Charles
Badeuil.
FOUAN (LOUIS), known as Pere Fouan. He was the son of Joseph Casimir
Fouan, and married Rose Maliverne, by whom he had three children,
Hyacinthe, Buteau, and Fanny. He received seven acres of land from
his father, and his wife brought him twelve acres more. This land
he cultivated well, and with a passion for the soil, as such, which
amounted to frenzy. It alone had his love, and his wife and children
trembled before him under a rude despotism. At seventy years of age
he was still healthy, but his limbs were failing, and he reluctantly
decided to divide his land between his children. He retained his
house and garden, which had come to him with his wife, and his family
undertook to pay him a rent for the land handed over to them. Upon this,
along with a nest-egg of three hundred francs per annum, known to no
one, the old people would be able to live comfortably.
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