In front of the stone pillars that marked the front gate of his home, Monsieur Valmonde found a toddler fast asleep. She was unfamiliar and of unknown origin, but Monsieur still took the child to his wife, Madame Valmonde, who did not worry herself with these questions, although they were important to the time period in New Orleans, because she believed that Providence had sent her the child she could not conceive.