FRANCEZ, Jean P., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JEAN PIERRE FRANCEZ, M. D., CARENCRO.--Jean Pierre Francez, M. D., was born in
Carencro, June 30, 1849.  He is the son of R. J. and Adele (Bernard) Francez.  
Dr. R. J. Francez was born near Terbes, France, March 12, 1817.  He received
his literary education in his native town, and is a graduate of a medical
college at Toulouse.  Immediately after his graduation, 1839, he removed to
East St. Louis, Illinois, where he practised [sic] his profession until his
removal to Carencro, in 1844, since when he has devoted his attention to his
profession at this place.  During the Civil War he was for a time attached to
the Twenty-eighth Louisiana Infantry as surgeon.  Dr. Francez has been
successful, not only as a physician, but as a business man.  He owns in
Lafayette parish about 1000 acres of land.  He twice married; first, 1847, to
the mother of our subject.  She died in 1853, and in 1855.  Dr. Francez
married Miss Athenaise Bernard, a cousin of his former wife.  To the first
union there were born three children, Dr. J. P., Joseph, and a younger child,
which only lived to be three years of age.  To the latter marriage were born
thirteen children, ten of whom are now living.  Dr. Francez has given to each
of his children a good education.  Three of them are at present attending
college in New Orleans.

The subject of this sketch received his education in the University of
Louisiana, now Tulane, New Orleans, graduating from that institution March 18,
1871.  Desiring to receive tile benefits of foreign travel, and the finished
education which only the schools of the Old World afford, Dr. Francez
Immediately after graduating went to Paris, France, where he pursued his
studies in the Medical Faculty for a period of twenty-two months. 
Subsequently he continued his studies in Montpelier and Toulouse for a similar
length of time.  He returned to Lafayette parish in 1875, and the same year
commenced the practice of medicine at Carencro, to which he has since devoted
his whole attention.  He has a very extensive practice.

July 27, 1875, he was married to Miss Abbedie, of Lafayette parish.  She died
April 27, 1881, having become the mother of three children, two daughters, 
Grazellia and  Adele, and a son,  Laennec, who died in infancy.  The Doctor
married a second time, in 1881, Miss Clara Bernard, daughter of Ernest
Bernard.  They are the parents of one son, Laennec Henri.

Dr. Francez is one of the most progressive citizens of Lafayette parish, and
is a leader in all matters pertaining to the development of his section.  Upon
the organization, in 1878, of the Emigration Society, he was elected
president, and served for one year in that capacity.  He has been since 1882 a
distinguished member of the Attakapas Medical Association, and has served as
its vice president.  He has been for several years, and is now, a member of
the parish school board, and takes a great interest in educational matters. 
Dr. Francez, in politics, is an ardent democrat, and active in the
manipulation of party affairs.  He was a delegate to the Gubernatorial
Convention in Baton Rouge, in 1888, which nominated Francis T. Nicholls for
Governor.  He was elected the first mayor of the town of Carencro, August 10,
1882.


Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
224-225.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.