Who was Laura Locoul Gore? How did she become the owner of Laura Plantation, when she was not even the next in line to inherit the sugar plantation? What made Laura so special? Laura Locoul Gore was an extraordinary woman, before her time, who defied the limits that society imposed on her. Laura's story began before she was born, when her great-grandfather Guillaume DuParc came to America against her wishes. William was known to get into trouble. When Guillaume fought and killed the son of his father's best friend, it was the last straw. “At that time, at the end of the 18th century, duels were not very popular in France, especially duels that resulted in the death of a man.” (1) His father made him join the Navy of Admiral de Grasse and sent him to America. He quickly made a name for himself fighting under Spanish Admiral Bernardo de Galvez in Florida in 1778, and he was sent as Spanish colonial commander of Pointe Coupee, in central Louisiana, in 1792. To be awarded his services, he received land grants, and he eventually found his way to St. James Parish. He eventually settled on the banks of the Mississippi River and built what is today known as the Laura Plantation. (3) Guillaume later married Anne "Nanette" Prud'Hommes, and she bore him three children: Louis "de Mézière" Duparc, Guillaume Flagy Duparc and Elizabeth Durpac (who would eventually become Laura's grandmother). Louis married Fannie Rucker and had a daughter named Eliza. Unfortunately, Eliza died due to an experimental medical procedure and left Louis without an heir. His brother Guillaume Flagy Duparc was therefore the next to inherit the plantation, but fate repeated itself. Guillaume married Mer...... middle of paper ......preserved by his children (Laura, Désirée and Charles Jr.), and this is how historians discovered the story of Laura Plantation and the events that happened there. One can learn the true history of the plantation and see it through the eyes of Laura Locoul Gore. (1) Overall, Laura Locoul Gore can be considered an extraordinary woman. She ran a plantation, rejected certain ways of thinking in society, rejected racism, and wrote her memoir to tell the true story of Laura Plantation. Without his detailed account of the history of Laura Plantation, no one would know the true history of the plantation or the events that occurred there. Although she may be dead, her legacy lives on through the plantation (which is still visited today) and the memoirs she left behind (which is now a published book). Laura Locoul Gore was truly an extraordinary woman.