Family
In 1841, Beauregard married Marie Antoinette Laure Villeré (March 22, 1823 – March 21, 1850), the daughter of Jules Villeré, a sugar cane planter in Plaquemines Parish and a member of one of the most prominent French Creole families in southern Louisiana. Marie's paternal grandfather was Jacques Villeré, the second governor of Louisiana. She was described as having had blue eyes and fair skin. The couple had three children: René (1843–1910), Henri (1845–1915), and Laure (1850–1884). Marie died in March 1850, while giving birth to Laure.
Ten years later, the widower Beauregard married Caroline Deslonde, the daughter of André Deslonde, a sugar cane planter from St. James Parish. Caroline was a sister-in-law of John Slidell, a U.S. senator from Louisiana and later a Confederate diplomat. She died in New Orleans in March 1864, when it was under Union occupation. They had no children together.
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