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portrait by george catlin -lrb- louisiana state museum -rrb- by frank schneider , based on a painting 16 june 1881 new orleans , louisiana roman catholic with louisiana voodoo roots french quarter , new orleans , louisiana american 10 september 1794 louisiana voodoo practitioner marielaveau -lrb- frank schneider -rrb- . png christophe dominick duminy de glapion
 marie laveau voodoo queen of new orleans
christophe dominick duminy de glapion

christophe dominick duminy de glapion , also known as `` louis christope dominick duminy de glapion , '' -lrb- date of birth unknown - c. 1855 -rrb- -rrb- was the plaçage husband of the famed louisiana voodoo queen , marie laveau .
he was a white man of noble french descent .
they began their relationship sometime before 1826 , after the death of laveau 's first , legal husband , jacques paris , who disappeared -lrb- and was presumed dead -rrb- not long after their marriage .
de glapion fathered seven children with laveau , but only two of these , marie heloïse euchariste glapion -lrb- born in 1827 -rrb- and marie philomène glapion -lrb- born in 1836 -rrb- survived into adulthood .
the youngest became laveau 's successor , the also-famed marie laveau ll .
