BIRTH AND PARENTAGE 69 
This was a sugar plantation on the north side of Lake 
Ponchartrain, three miles east of what is now the vil- 
lage of Mandeville and twenty-five miles due north of 
New Orleans. 
Pierre Enguerrand Philippe de Mandeville, Ecuyer 
Sieur de Marigny,** at one time owner of vast estates in 
and about New Orleans, was born in that city in 1750, 
and served as its aleade or mayor for two years. A 
lavish dispenser of hospitality, in 1798 he entertained 
in great state the Duke of Orleans, later known as 
Louis Philippe of France, together with his two broth- 
ers who accompanied him. He died at New Orleans, 
leaving five sons, of whom the third, Bernard Marigny, 
later became the owner of “Fontainebleau,” which it 
has been mistakenly assumed was inherited from his 
father. At the time of the Duke of Orleans’ visit just 
mentioned Jean Audubon had been out of the country 
nine years; there is no evidence of his ever having 
owned property at New Orleans, or ever having sus- 
tained any relations with the Marigny family. 
Before following the Marigny myth further, it will 
be interesting to notice a late echo of the “Fontaine- 
bleau” story. In 1910 the Reverend Gordon Bakewell, 
then in his eighty-ninth year, gave some interesting rem- 
iniscences of Audubon, and spoke very definitely con- 
cerning both the time and place of his birth. Dr. Bake- 
well was a nephew of Mrs. Audubon, and as a youth, in 
1834, had passed some time at her home in London. 
John W. Audubon, with his father’s assistance, painted 
at that time a portrait of young Bakewell, who at a 
See J. W. Crozart, “Bibliographical and Genealogical Notes Con- 
cerning the Family of Philippe de Mandeville, Ecuyer Sieur de Marigny, 
1709-1800,” Louisiana Historical Society Publications, vol. v (New Orleans, 
1911). The portrait referred to below now hangs in the H. Sophie New= 
comb Memorial College, New Orleans. 
