CHRONOLOGY 



1785 



April 26. Fougere, Jean Rabin, or Jean Jacques Fougere 

 Audubon, born at Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, now Haiti. 



1789 



Fougere, at four years, and Muguet, his sister by adoption, at 

 two, are taken by their father to the United States, and 

 thence to France. 



1794 



March 7 (17 ventose, an 2). Fougere, when nine years old, 

 and Muguet at six, are legally adopted as the children of 

 Jean Audubon and Anne Moynet, his wife. 



1800 



October 23 (1 brumaire, an 9). Baptized, Jean Jacques Fou- 

 gere, at Nantes, when in his sixteenth year. 



1802-1803 



Studies drawing for a brief period under Jacques Louis David, 

 at Paris. 



1803 



First return to America, at eighteen, to learn English and 

 enter trade: settles at "Mill Grove" farm, near Phila- 

 delphia, where he spends a year and begins his studies of 

 American birds. 



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