The Bondurant Family on the Regordane
The Bondurant Family came from the region of Rouergue in the Central Massif. Some family members moved to towns along The Regordane Way such as Viélvic, Génolhac and Malihiéres. The Bondurants ran inns on this road. The road passes down la Grand Rue in Génolhac and bisects Belle-Poille, where a restored Bondurant Inn still exists today.
Jean-Pierre Bondurant, a Protestant apothecary lived in 42c Grand Rue
Génolhac. Born 18 September 1677, he inherited the house in la Grand Rue and three mills following the death of his parents in 1694 and 1695. Jean-Pierre was baptized a Huguenot in the Génolhac temple and rebaptized as a Catholic in the same town on 13 February 1684 following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He escaped the persecutions that took place in and around the outbreak of the Camisard War (1702) and fled to Switzerland, from where he moved to America via the UK. He settled with his wife Gabrielle and they had two children, Jean Pierre and Francoise.
The President of the Bondurant Family Association, David Bondurant, at the door of the Bondurant house in Génolhac during his 1992 visit.
A former Bondurant Family inn in Génolhac
You can find out more about the Bondurant family by visiting their family website.
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