BROUSSARD, Savique, St. Martin, Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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SAVIQUE BROUSSARD, BREAUX BRIDGE.--Savique Broussard is a successful planter,
residing near Breaux Bridge.  He is the son of Z. and Carmelite (Martin)
Broussard, both of whom are natives of this parish.  Z. Broussard was for six
years sheriff of St. Martin parish.  He was a successful sugar planter.  He
died in 1878.  His wife died in 1859.

Savique Broussard is the eldest of a family of three children.  He received
his education in St. Charles College, Grand Coteau.  After leaving school he
engaged as clerk for a period of two years in a mercantile establishment in
St. Martinville.  Later he removed to his plantation, and has since given his
attention to agricultural pursuits.  Upon his plantation be raises principally
cotton, to which the land is specially adapted.

Mr. Broussard married, October, 1850, Miss Alice Mouton, a native of
Lafayette, born 1835, and daughter of Edmund and Eulalie Mouton.  They became
the parents of seven children:  Edmund,  Albert,  Paul,  Louise,  Alice, 
Elise and  Angel.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 315. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.