Sylvain BREAU (BRAULT)
Biography

Breaus were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana. An elderly couple, a wife, and an orphan came to the colony in February 1765 with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue. They followed the Broussards across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:

Sylvain Breau of Minas and Chignecto, age 52, came with wife Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Darois, age 66. An epidemic struck the Bayou Teche communities in the summer and fall of 1765. Sylvain and Isabelle died on the same day, October 12, and were buried together au dernier camp d'en bas, or the lower place, on Fausse Point near present-day Loreauville.

Brigitte Breau, age 45, widow of Charles Thibodeau, came with three children, ages 14, 10, and 2. Brigitte also was a victim of the Teche valley epidemic. She died on August 5. Her children remained on the Teche, cared for by relatives.

Firmin Breau, age 16, came to Louisiana as an orphan. He survived the epidemic and was counted on Bayou Tortue, near present-day St. Martinville, the following spring. Later in the decade, however, he moved to the river, married, and started a family before returning to upper Bayou Teche.

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