Movements outside France
-1- The evangelization of Texas: Pierre-Yves Keralum was born in Quimper in 1817, the last of ten children. After studying at the Petit Séminaire de Pont-Croix, he obtained a degree in architecture in Paris. He then entered the major seminary of Quimper, then joined the missionary order of the Oblates. He arrived in Texas in 1852 as an evangelist, built several churches there and then died there around 1782, apparently after
getting lost while traveling on horseback.
-2- California: Dominique Bigarel established himself as a tailor in San Francisco around 1850 coming from Moselle, following the call of the gold rush, but without taking part in it. He returned to Paris around 1870. A member of the Bouzereau family settled in Los Angeles to work in the film industry.
-3- Lithuania – France – Canada: Juozas Bulota arrives in France from Lithuania before the 2nd World War, meets Liliane Bouzereau. They get married and then emigrate to Canada, to Quebec.
Other members of the Bouzereau, Luquin and Grimont families will live in Quebec or Ontario.
-4- Hungary – France: Parents who come from Hungary, pass through Belgium, then arrive in Paris with their daughter who is going to get married there with a member of the Bouzereau family whom she met on a bus, and who will return on a trip to Budapest in 2009 to find his roots there, a great journey!
-5- Indochina: Joseph David, one of my grandfather's brothers, an aviator during the 14-18 war, became a customs inspector in "Indochina" between 1930 and 1945. He then returned to France in Maine-et- Loire.
-6- Japan – Singapore: A member of the Grimont family works in Japan, then stays in Singapore for many years on behalf of a large French automobile company. He returns to rest in Brittany, while
-7- Australia: Several members of his wife's English family and one of his English nephews emigrated to Australia.
-8- Madagascar: Florence Bigarel, back from the United States where she was born in San Francisco, opts for French nationality, marries Hubert Gossot, polytechnician, who chooses the army. Both go to New Caledonia, Senegal and Madagascar.
-9- South Africa: Claudine Luquin and her husband Paul Bramoullé emigrate to South Africa where their children live in Cape Town.
-10- Geology: When you marry a geologist, you should expect to travel a bit. This is what happens for a lady Bouzereau, who will thus go from France to England (her geologist husband is English), to Canada, to Ghana, to Belgium and then finally to London.
-11- Senegal: Jacques David, my father's first cousin, a banker like him, worked for many years in Dakar, Senegal, then returned to France.
-12- Morocco: Marie-Thérèse Bouzereau married in 1951 in Casablanca and then returned to France in Nice.
-13- Death in Seville: Jacques David, brother of my grandfather Henri, became a veterinarian, mayor of Nemours for many years, then made a final trip to Spain, to Seville, where he died.
-14- Eurostar: My grandmother Simone's niece crosses the Channel to find a young English man, finally rather Scottish, to get married and live there.
-15- Germany: A niece of my wife Simone is going to try her luck in Germany, meets a young Moroccan man there, they get married and have a lot (well not that many) of children. They are established in Germany.
-16- Tunisia: Pierre-André Bouzereau, nephew of my grandfather Emile, works in Tunisia, gets married there in 1933 with Angèle Falanga, born in 1915 in Tunis. They have two children, and then return to France.
-17- Algeria: My wife Simone's older brother was born in Oran, his mother having followed her husband who was doing his military service in Algeria as a veterinarian. He then decides to return to France, following his parents.
