Adolfo Alejandro Nouel: Difference between revisions

Nouel was born to [[Carlos Rafael Nouel y Pierret]], a Dominican diplomat, law teacher, journalist, and businessman of French descent, and Clemencia Antonia Bobadilla y Desmier D’Olbreuse (daughter of President [[Tomás Bobadilla|Tomás Bobadilla y Briones]], of full Spanish descent and the first ruler of the Dominican Republic, with his wife of French noble origin María Virginia Desmier D’Olbreuse y Allard, from the [[Castle of Olbreuse|Desmier of Olbreuse]] dynasty) in [[Santo Domingo]]. Nouel was 3/4 French and 1/4 Spanish. His great-grandfather, Barthelemy Pierret Grinet, was a French gunnery sergeant who arrived to the island on 29 January 1802 in the fleet commanded by General [[Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)|Leclerc]], Napoleon's brother-in-law.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Edwin Rafael|last=Espinal Hernández|title=Los descendientes de la flota de Leclerc|url=http://www.idg.org.do/capsulas/diciembre2005/diciembre20053.htm|work=Cápsulas Genealógicas|publisher=Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía (Dominican Institute of Genealogy)|date=3 December 2005|accessdate=27 September 2014|language=Spanish}}</ref>