Jean Baptiste FLORIAN Jolly de Pontcadeuc and his wife Marguerite were two of the most amazing people to escape the French Revolution. With a mob of killer revolutionaries hot on their trail, they managed to flee to England, set up a school, catalogued much of the knowledge of the time, then set their sights on America. They (and their four daughters) emigrated to New Orleans in 1810, and became the great-ggg-grandparents of Lew, and of many other Americans alive today who have never even heard of the Florian family. The documents below describe the family, their fascinating letters, their travels, art, loves, ancestors, descendants and even a family shipwreck.