 Complete the following phrase:  According to information he provided to his masonic lodge in New Orleans, he was born in Cette now Sète in Languedoc, France. Contrary to the spurious Diary of Jean Laffite, he was not the older brother of Pierre and Jean Laffite. He may have joined the army of Revolutionary France as an artillerist. He served in the French Republics artillery corp. In 1802 he accompanied General Charles Leclerc to Saint-Domingue to quell Toussaint Louvertures 