Blog category: Catiche Villard
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Pirate Consorts: Marie and Catherine Villard
May 30, 2014
Sisters Marie and Catherine (Catiche) Villard were the mistresses of the New Orleans-based pirate brothers Pierre and Jean Laffite. There’s a sad coda to their story, involving descendants who tried to pass for white.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte