painting and music as a means of gaining a livelihood. For many years
he worked in his profession and accumulated enough to lay aside. This
he invested in cotton which was destroyed in a warehouse by fire. It
was hard, but he began all over again and in the meantime married a
widow with a daughter. This step-daughter won his complete affection,
and when she married he devoted himself to her two children, a girl and
a boy. It was because of these two children that he came to Jefferson,
where they were then living.

The music teacher was 70 years old when he came into the lives
of Jaffray and Renestine; a polished, grand old man of kingly soul and
manners. The little daughters quickly learned to love their dear old
teacher and all his life time he was their dear friend.

Jaffray was much impressed by this gentle nobleman and was glad
to have the privilege of his friendship for himself and his family. He
found that he was easily tired in these days and welcomed nightfall
when he could sit on the porch in the twilight of summer and feel the
peace of evening creep on apace. Often Mr. D'Archais would join him
and chat about travel and the fall and rise of political parties in
France.

"I left France after the fall of Louis Philippe," he said, "and
came to America. My property was confiscated and I arrived here
penniless. A friend of mine had gone to Mobile, Alabama, some years
before, and I resolved to follow him. I began life over again and took
a position in a young ladies' academy there to teach piano. I had
taken lessons from renowned musicians in Paris, the same as taught
Napoleon's sister, Pauline, and this was my only means now of making a
living.