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He was a white man of noble French descent. de Glapion fathered seven children with LaVeau, but only two of these, Marie Heloïse Euchariste Glapion (born in 1827) and Marie Philomène Glapion (born in 1836) survived into adulthood. The youngest became Laveau"s successor, the also-famed Marie LaVeau ll. The Laveau-Glapion family lived in the original French section of the New Orleans, now known as the Vieux Carré or French Quarter, in a cottage on Saint Ann Street between Rampart and Burgundy.
lieutenant was built around 1798 by Marie"s grandmother, Catherine Henry, but after they moved in the property became legally owned by de Glapion.
