CHRONOLOGY 
1785 
April 26.—Fougére, Jean Rabin, or Jean Jacques Fougére 
Audubon, born at Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, now Haiti. 
1789 
Fougére, at four years, and Muguet, his sister by adoption, at 
two, are taken by their father to the United pate, and 
thence to France. 
1794 
March 7 (17 ventose, an 2).—Fougére, 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- 
gére, 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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