When Genevieve Brunet was born on 26 March 1870, in Chataignier, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, her father, Theophile Zephirin Alexandre Brunet, was 27 and her mother, Amelie Manuel, was 26. She married Theogene Manuel on 29 June 1886, in Chataignier, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in St. Landry, Louisiana, United States in 1880 and Eunice, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States in 1900. She died on 21 January 1925, in Evangeline, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 54.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Some characteristic forenames: French Pierre, Andre, Emile, Armand, Marcel, Elphege, Fernand, Michel, Antoine, Armande, Cecile, Christophe.
French and Catalan: nickname from a diminutive of Brun ‘brown’.
German: Waldensian name, of French origin (see 1 above).
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