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Daniel's first wife: (b. 1937)
Out - Shirley Carol Price
FN: Patricia
MN: Dorothy
LN: Harris

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Eldest daughter: (b. 1960)
Out - Nathlie Odile
FN: Josiane
MN: Karen

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Eldest son: (b. 1963)
Out - John Rémy
FN: Nicolas
MN: James
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Daniel's second wife: (b. 1938)
Out - Cécile Aline Morel
FN: Annette
MN: Lucie
LN: Ferreira

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Middle daughter: (b. 1973)
Out - Sandrine Sévèrine
FN: Karine
MN: Delphine,

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Youngest daughter: (b. 1975)
Out - Carine Alexandra
FN: Caroline
MN: Emmanuelle

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Youngest son: (b. 1978)
Out -Cédric Grégory
FN: Sébastien
MN: Thomas

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H: Joseph André Girard (b. 1900)
W: Marguerite Marcelle Girard(b. 1901)

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S: Robert Lucien Girard (b. 1923)
LW: Lucienne Simonne Girard (1931-1954)
-S: Patrick Jean-Claude Girard (b. 1954)
S: Claude Léon Girard (b. 1925)
W: Mireille Antoinette Dumas (b. 1932)
-S: Pascal Jean-Paul Girard (b. 1956)
-S: Frédéric Luc Girard (b. 1960)
D: Jacqueline Simone Girard (b. 1928)
H: Edmond Victor Lemaître (b. 1924)
-D: Chantal Brigitte Lemaître (b. 1952)
-D: Jocelyne Élisabeth Lemaître (b. 1954)
-D: Véronique Sylviane Lemaître (b. 1956)
-D: Corinne Danièle Lemaître (b. 1958)
-D: Nadia Sabine Lemaître (b. 1960)
D: Thérèse Gisèle Girard (b. 1930)
H: Armand Alexandre Charpentier (b. 1925)
-D: Marie-Claire Myriam Charpentier (b. 1955)
-S: Francis Bertrand Charpentier (b. 1958)
-S: Xavier Benoît Charpentier (b. 196)
S: Daniel Marc Girard (b. 1933)
Ex-W: Patricia Dorothy Harris (b. 1937)
-D: Josiane Karen Girard (b. 1960)
-S: Nicolas James Girard (b. 1963)
W: Annette Lucie Ferreira (b. 1938)
-D: Karine Delphine Girard (b. 1973)
-D: Caroline Emmanuelle Girard (b. 1975)
-S: Sébastien Thomas Girard (b. 1978)
D: Anne Geneviève Girard (b. 1936)

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The youngest Girard child Anne has always been the most...ahem...spirited. A somewhat wild, impulsive free spirit, she rejects the restrictive mores of the 40s and 50s that she was raised with and rebels in every way she can: skips school to attend rallies to end French occupation of its colonies, refuses to go to church, sneaks out of the house at night, even *gasp* attempts to wear pants to school. Her deeply Catholic parents don't quite know what to do with her, and are appalled when at 17 years old, Anne announces to her parents that she is pregnant and that she is definitely keeping the child instead of putting it up for adoption.
At first Anne refuses to name the father, but soon she admits that he is a young Algerian-born Muslim student at the Sorbonne. Anne tries to impress upon her parents that they are in love and that he wants to provide for their child, but her parents refuse to let him see her and keep her under near lockdown. Anne and her lover exchange secret notes through her older sister Thérèse, who is sympathetic to her sister's situation, and plan for Anne to escape with the baby and move to the country where no one would know them. Just weeks after her high school graduation, Anne gives birth to a baby girl, and returns to her parents' house, now also inhabited by her widower eldest brother and his 3 month old son. After months of agonized planning, Anne leaves her parents' house forever with the help of her baby's father and moves in temporarily with his family on the outskirts of Paris. They are wary at first, but soon they warm to Anne and their grandchild and the first few years are relatively happy ones.
However, sadly, five years later Joseph and Marguerite get a call from the French police: after not hearing from her for years, their daughter was dead. Apparently one of the brothers in the family she was staying with had been involved in organized crime, and when he did not pay his debts, henchmen were sent out to murder his entire family, and Anne had been caught in the crossfire. Her daughter had only survived because her father had seen them coming and had sent her to a neighbor's house--he had tried to convince Anne to go too, but she had refused. Joseph and Marguerite were devastated at the loss of their youngest daughter, and took their granddaughter in to raise, knowing that in the end, it was what Anne would have wanted.

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Anne's lover: (1933-1959)
Out:
FN: Samir, Abdelkader, Djamel, Ahmed, Saïd
MN: Azouz, Arhab, Abdelaziz, Mohammed, Ali
LN: Adjani, Brahimi, Chakouri, Demai, El Djebena

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Anne's daughter: (b. 1954)
Out:
FN: Roselyne, Anita, Noëlle, Marylène, Claudie
MN: Marie-Noëlle, Marlène, Armelle, Sylvette, Yveline

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Meanwhile, in 1958, Robert decides that it is high time to move out of his parents' house, now that his son is a well-adjusted little boy, and into a small house in a nice neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris. He hires a housekeeper--a bright, friendly 18-year-old high school graduate from a poorer family--to do the cooking, cleaning, and taking care of Patrick. Robert's mother warns him that this arrangement is not exactly appropriate and that he should've chosen someone older, but soon the young girl becomes the glue that keeps the family together--Patrick loves her, and Robert comes to depend on her. However, as the years go by, the platonic affection that Robert and his housekeeper have for each other deepens into something else, and soon they begin an illicit affair. Robert is torn--he still loves and misses his late wife, but the feelings he has for his housekeeper cannot be denied. When Patrick turns ten, Robert unexpectedly fires his housekeeper, telling her that Patrick has become too old to need a "nursemaid." Hurt, the housekeeper leaves and Robert replaces her with a stodgy old woman, but little does Robert know the condition in which he left his former housekeeper...

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Robert's housekeeper/lover: (b. 1940)
Out:
FN: France, Jeannette, Anna, Angèle, Joséphine
MN: Élise, Léone, Émilienne, Reine, Marinette
LN: Robert, Sanchez, Jean, Boucher, Blanchard

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Robert's son: (b. 1964)
Out:
FN: William, David, Martial, Rémi, Manuel
MN: Robert, Yann, Hugues, Noël, Mohamed

This message was edited 3/20/2010, 10:13 AM