Dr Andres Jorge VIGAS

In an article of the magazine “El Cojo Illustrado” from April 1911, in Caracas, Venezuela, a portrait photography, top right, of Dr Andres Jorge VIGAS, a Venezuelan lawyer of Spanish origin, co-founder and owner of the Daily News Paper “El Universal” in Caracas, Venezuela. He married Maria Olivero de VIGAS, obviously an Indian Creole woman by her mother, and they had five children, of whom one daughter, Maria Josefina VIGAS, born Oct 20, 1920 in Caracas, later a teacher in French, and who married on Sept 30, 1939, in Le Havre, France, Dr Pierre Emile THIBAULT, born in Paris Aug 3, 1910, a French medical doctor. Maria Josefina VIGAS is also photographed here in 1951 in Caracas, after her divorce from Dr Pierre Emile THIBAULT. She visited her two sons and their families in France and Sweden in 2002.

Jules Pierre Ernest Germain THIBAULT, born in Ruffec, Charente, France, a great-grand son of a “Caporal CAILLAUD” of the Napoleon Army, was several years a corporal in the French colonial army in Morocco at the end of the 19^th and beginning of the 20^th century. After his military service, he opened, in an old house which is still there, the “Café de la Comedie” on the central square of Ruffec. He became later a trader in Paris where he married Jeanne Celestine BROUST, the daughter of a trader colleague. Jules Pierre and Jeanne had three children, the eldest, a girl, Yvonne who married Lucien Gouy, a dentist colleague of her brother Dr Pierre Emile Thibault, and the youngest brother, Jacques Thibault, a trader, photographed here beside his father Jules Pierre. Jules Pierre and Jeanne are buried at the “Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise” in Paris, in a tomb common to the THIBAULT and BROUST families.

Dr Pierre E Thibault, wrote his medical thesis at the “Faculte de Medecine de Paris” in 1935 about “Les accidents infectieux d´origine dentaire chez les syphilitiques”. He was appointed as a “Medecin Capitaine de la Marine Marchande”, and he is photographed here aboard his ship, the MS LAFAYETTE, and here beside a visiting American Indian chief in the harbour of New York. He sailed from Le Havre, France, to the Americas, North Africa, and the Middle-East during most of the second half of the thirties.

Dr Pierre E Thibault and Maria Josefina Vigas gave birth to two sons, Pierre Andre THIBAULT, a French journalist, born Oct 10, 1939 in Le Havre, France, and Jose Maria Philippe THIBAULT, a trader, born Nov 25, 1940, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Origin of the apellido VIGAS (apellido = name)

Origin of the name THIBAULT

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