An interesting artice in the Opelousas Daily World documented that one of the longest serving postmasters in the United States, Alphonse Guillette, born in 1842, grew up in the southern French province of Vendee one year in school behind the World War I French Premier, Geoges Clemenceau.
Guillette immigrated to the USA at the age of 17 settling in Evangeline Parish in the Chataignier area. He spent his life as a mail carrier for the US Postal Service while his French classmate directed the French effort to defeat the Germans. It is indeed a small world. Mailbox source is http://courses.washington.edu/dmwork/images_W1L3/mailbox.jpg
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