Julie Robert Avart presents to the police jury the following sequence of events in support of her request to emancipate her male mulatto slave named Louis Iréné. Louis Iréné was born in 1808 to one of her slaves named Félicité. Right after his birth, Louis Iréné "remained a long while senseless" and was brought back to life only through the "many efforts" of Julie Robert Avart who decided, then and there, to emancipate him as soon as the law would permit. One year later, the child became gravely ill again and Julie Robert Avart, who was away at the time, came back to town to take care of him. At the begging of the child's mother, she consented to have him baptized, on the condition that he would be baptized free. The child soon recovered and, from that moment on, was considered free and treated as such by "all who knew him." He was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. But Julie Robert Avart has recently discovered that, through an error in the records, Louis Iréné was not baptized free, but as a slave. She therefore prays the police jury, "in order to fulfill her promise and rectify the error" as well as to reward the now twenty-three-year-old Louis Iréné's good morals and character, to fulfill the emancipation formalities "prescribed by law" [Original in French and English].
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
