#Guillot

[twistingtreeancestry]

Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion

Image Description: A black and white portrait of the Ovillier Guillot and Eve Vice family, circa the early-to-mid 1900s. Top (children), left to right: Eunice Guillot 1922-Dec; Joseph Guillot 1926-2014; Lenus Guillot 1923-1960; Beulah Guillot 1918-1991. Bottom (parents), left to right: Ovillier Guillot 1897-1967; Eve Vice 1897-1950.

The two daughters wear similar dark, button-down dresses with white doll collars. The mother wears a dark, button-down open-collar blouse or dress. The two sons and the father wear white dress shirts covered by fastened suit jackets complete with ties.

Image by [[TBD]].

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Pictured above is my 3rd great-uncle Ovillier Guillot and his family. He is the 4th great-grandson of Jean Baptiste Guillot.

Today is the Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion.

While I have quite a few direct ancestors who lived in Nova Scotia and ended up in France at the time of the expulsion, there's only one family unit that I have been able to confirm was expelled.

That was the family of my 8th great-grandfather Jean Baptiste Guillot, born in Acadia in 1720 with his body given to the Atlantic Ocean in 1758. His family was expelled from Cobequid, Acadia, Nova Scotia to France during the brutal "Great Expulsion" by the British, who wanted to squelch any potential threats from the Acadians and the Mi'kmaq during the French and Indian War.

His son (my 7th great-grandfather) Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot was only 13 in 1758 when they had to take the long, arduous 75-day journey to France. His father Jean, along with 4 of his brothers, never made it off of the ship.

Charles grew up in France where he married and had 3 children of his own. They left France in 1785 to board one of the seven ships paid for by Spain, Le Saint-Rémi, to take them to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

Many members of the Wabanaki Confederacy (I believe predominately it was the Mi'kmaq militia), in addition to other affiliated Indigenous tribes and Acadians, who rallied a resistance were slaughtered or expelled. They refused to swear loyalty to the British crown and surrender to British colonists, refused to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism, and refused to allow themselves to be displaced without a fight. Numerous battles took place to stop the deportation with wins and losses across the board.

While no one has one lineage, I was raised as a proud Cajun despite having often felt ashamed of being Cajun for various reasons (like my accent). I even tried my hardest over twelve years to banish anything that could link me to my roots, not knowing the history behind a part of my ethnicity and culture.

Digging into my ancestry has been a wild ride, and there were many things found within my lineages that were not honorable in any way, but this chunk of my history? This has made me proud to be Cajun again.

I wish I had respected it more when I was still able to be immersed in it. I wish I had asked my pawpaw to tell me more stories. I wish I had kept up with Cajun French (AKA Louisiana French). I wish I hadn't let my cultural heritage fall through my fingers.

Many blessings to those who fought and lost their lives against the British colonists in an attempt to secure the freedom of not only themselves but of future generations to come.

[Disclaimer: I am still only beginning to educate myself about this event and am utilizing my current understanding of how events unfolded and who was involved. I apologize in advance for any misconceptions or misinformation regarding the historical accuracy of my comments.]

[detournementsmineurs]

Avant-première animée par Antoine Guillot pour France Culture en présence du réalisateur Bertrand Bonello autour de “La Bête” - librement inspiré du roman court éponyme d'Henry James (1903) - janvier 2024.

[hagovpyv]

Guillermo moreno lee al puto perón moreno swolio papa swolio

[opelman]

RENAULT CLIO / Marc GUILLOT / FRA / MILAN COMPETITION by Artes Max Via Flickr: Racing Weekend 2022 / Circuit de Barcelona

[diana-andraste]

Nude Study, Laure Albin Guillot, c. 1940

[eternal--returned]

Alphonse Mucha ֍ F. Guillot Pelletier-Orleans Calendar (1897)

[las-microfisuras]

En un desconocido manuscrito de T. S. Elliot

(que no existe) está tu retrato (que existe).

Observo un blanco aleteo sobre el río, la salida

del sol, la niebla, y otros accesorios de la naturaleza.

Esta breve alegría encerrada en los detalles

conquistó los últimos bastiones de la conciencia.

¿Sabes? me duele el corazón (que existe), fragmento

de canto de amor, fragmento de canto de muerte.

- Tomasz Majeran, antologado en Poesía a Contragolpe. Antología de poesía polaca contemporánea. Selección y traducción de Abel Murcia, Gerardo Beltrán y Xavier Farré.

- Bernard Guillot

[topcat77]

Laure Albin-Guillot, 1930

[disease]

“CIGARETTE ADVERTISING” LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT // 1930s [gelatin silver print | 11 3/4 × 9 1/2"]

[dozydawn]

[contremineur]

Laure Albin-Guillot, Orchidées (1927)

from here

[joeinct]

Road through the Woods. Photo by Laure Albin-Guillot, 1938

[beautifulpeacehideout]

Arunya Guillot

[lucaf2019]

Léa e Manuel Guillot sul set del film "Le Deuxième Acte", 2024

Thanks to Manuel Guillot (Instagram)

[aitan]

Laure Albin-Guillot, Nude, 1927

[diana-andraste]

La Déesse Cypris, Laure Albin Guillot, 1946