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    Audubonia Bonaparte, 1855 and others

    Audubon scholarship can be broken into two periods: before Herricks 1914 biography and after. Before we relied on Audubon's imaginative fiction and some very poor inference. After we know this: Audubon's birth record (in the form of a bill from the "witch" doctor to Jean Audubon (as plantation...
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    Audubonia Bonaparte, 1855 and others

    According to wikitree: In 1794 Audubon's father returned to France, bringing with him two children who were formally adopted on 5 March 1794 in Nantes. The adoption act states that Jean Audubon was the biological father of both children: a boy, born 26 April 1785, given the name Fougère (Fern)...
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