My great-great-grandfather Ange was born during the age of the Monarchy Restoration in France, when Louis XVIII was reigning. When he was a child he lived with his sister, Aimable, 2 years older than him and his mother, Marie Louise Félicité Turgot, on the Nr. 5 Fraisier Street, at Brest. His father, Laurent René, was dead in a shipwreck at Newfoundland, on board of his Schooner La Fanchette, when he was only one year old.
Ange was son of a Captain of the French Navy and grandson of an Acadian Corsair Captain. When he was young, he studied at the Navy School of Brest to become a Brest Navy's Notary.