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Armand Gabriel Allard du Plantier (1753 - 9 Oct 1827) was a French cavalry officer who served in the American Revolutionary War as an aide-de-camp to General Lafayette.〔(Armand Duplantier: Father of Our Independence, on Yahoo ) accessed 23 July 2012〕〔(Duplantier's memorial ) on Find A Grave, accessed 11 April 2015.〕 Armand was born in Voiron, France, the son of Joseph Antoine Guy Allard du Plantier (1721–1801)〔(Family History ) accessed 3 August 2012〕 and Gabrielle Trenonay de Chanfrey.〔(Gabrielle Trenonay de Chanfrey ) accessed 3 August 2012〕 In 1781, he moved to Louisiana (New Spain), settling on the plantation of his uncle, Claude Trénonay, in the area of Point Coupee, Louisiana. He married his uncle's stepdaughter, Marie Augustine Gerard; the couple had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Marie Augustine died of yellow fever in 1799. In 1802 Duplantier remarried, to widow Constance Rochon Joyce, and the couple resided part of the time in their country house at ''Mount Magnolia'' plantation (which property today is within the city of Baton Rouge and owned by that city). Five more children were born of this union.〔(DuPlantier Family History ) accessed 10 April 2015.〕〔 Armand Duplantier Family Letters, Mss. 5060, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16313coll34 accessed 16 January 2015.〕 Duplantier was disturbed by the 1794 slave revolt which occurred locally. It was called the Pointe Coupée Conspiracy and reminded him of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). He was a slave-owner and regretted that he had bought some Saint-Domingue slaves, but he did not want to sell them until they regained their value.〔(Letter of January 10, 1795 ) accessed 23 July 2012.〕 Armand Duplantier helped to establish a college in Baton Rouge in 1822. A few years later, he was part of the delegation which welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette, during his American tour.〔(Louisiana Digital Library ) accessed 10 April 2015.〕 In 1827, Duplantier, Fulwar Skipwith, Antoine Blanc, Thomas B. Robertson, and Sebastien Hiriart received permission from the Louisiana State Legislature to organize a corporation called the Agricultural Society of Baton Rouge.〔(A general digest of the acts of the legislature of Louisiana, Vol II ) accessed 1 July 2012〕 Armand Duplantier died the same year and was given military honors at his funeral, in tribute to his Revolutionary War service.〔(Louisiana Digital Library ) accessed 10 April 2015.〕 ==See also== *''Mount Magnolia'' plantation, in East Baton Rouge Parish * Washington Artillery, descendant Armand Joseph Duplantier, Jr. (1919-1985), served for a time as Commander of the Washington Artillery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armand Duplantier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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