Colonel Furcy Fondeur Lajeunesse (1814 – 22 November 1892) was a

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military man and politician. Born in France, his family moved to the Spanish

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around 1820. His father was Louis Fondeur and his mother was Marguerite LaJeunesse,

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De La Juvenile; he had 5 siblings. He married Jacinta Castro and had 5 children, he was widowed and remarried to María Luisa Fernández Fernández (1837–1895) and had 10 children. On 14 September 1863, Fondeur signed the Act of the Independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain, and fought in the

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as a colonel; he is considered a hero of the

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. He was designated Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1867. Fondeur Lajeunesse was also president of the City Council of Santiago de los Caballeros.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fondeur, Furcy 1814 births 1892 deaths French emigrants to the Dominican Republic French people in the Spanish Empire Foreign ministers of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic military personnel People of the Dominican Restoration War Dominican Republic independence activists People from Santiago de los Caballeros White Dominicans

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