April 26.—Fougère, Jean Rabin, or Jean Jacques Fougère Audubon, born at Les Cayes, Santo Domingo, now Haiti.
1789
Fougère, at four years, and Muguet, his sister by adoption, at two, are taken by their father to the United States, and thence to France.
1794
March 7 (17 ventose, an 2).—Fougère, 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 Fougère, at Nantes, when in his sixteenth year.
1802-1803
Studies drawing for a brief period under Jacques Louis David, at Paris.