In 1792 my 4th great grandfather Antoine Lefevre brought his family to America to escape the chaos of the French Revolution. Rather than opting for the shelter of another city, they traded their comfortable Parisian home for land in the uncut wilderness west of the Appalachians mountains. Other Parisians followed and created a colony of exiled nobles, clergy, and bourgeoisie all living in very roughed conditions seventy-five miles from the nearest town. They called their colony French Asylum, or Azilum.
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