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Alexandrine de la Chaise Pradel
1715-17??

ca. 1715
Born, Auvergne, France, daughter of Jacques de la Chaise, director general of the Company of the Indies in Louisiana, and Marguerite Cailly.
1724
Accompanied her father and mother to New Orleans in 1724.
1730
March
Married Jean Charles de Pradel. Children: Alexandrine (b. 1731, in France), Charles, Jeanne-Henriette, and Marie Louise.
1749
The two eldest daughters were sent to be educated at the Ursuline Convent al Quimperle, France. Marie Louise joined them in 1753.
1743-1753
With her husband Alexandrine helped make their plantation, Monplaisir, the center of social life in New Orleans. Close personal friend of Governor Vaudreuil and his wife.
1761
Her eldest daughter Alexandrine dies in France.
1764
January 13
Son Charles died en route from Saint-Domingue.
1764
Severe financial problems brought on by the Seven Years' War and reckless spending by their children in France, hastened her husband's death in 1764.
Following her husband's death, she took over management of Monplaisir.
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