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Dr. Louis Georges Roger de Montluzin
[Louis Georges Roger Viallier de Montluzin du Sauzay]
July 19, 1863 - January 16, 1914
The fourth child of Ludovic Adrien de Montluzin and Reine Helluy, Roger de Montluzin was born in Convent, Louisiana, about eight years after his family emigrated from France. He graduated from Tulane University?s medical school and then went to Paris for further study in surgery. He became a prominent physician and surgeon in Baton Rouge and in New Orleans, performing operations (as was customary then) with his own set of instruments which he carried with him in a red-velvet-lined case designed to hold his scalpels and bone saw. Throughout his home were lavish gifts from grateful patients?gold-headed walking sticks, a crystal humidor for his cigars, silver-mounted hair brushes, and ornate snuffboxes. In New Orleans he was an active member of the Boston Club, the Pickwick Club, and several Carnival krewes. He became eminent in his field, publishing articles in American and European medical journals. In Baton Rouge he was appointed Surgeon-General of the state of Louisiana, with the rank of major on the staff of Governor Murphy J. Foster, and had his portrait painted wearing his uniform.
At the age of 39, while he was practicing in New Orleans, he had a stroke of paralysis, which confined him to a wheelchair. His marriage to Anne Brook of Baton Rouge had ended in divorce, and he was childless. Thus he came home to his parents? house in Bay St. Louis and set up an office in the central hall on the second floor. He had a manservant to assist him, and he managed very well, thanks to an outside elevator from his bedroom which allowed him to leave the house at will. He served as president of the Board of Health of Bay St. Louis and was vice-president of the Merchants Bank. He was known as a wonderful storyteller, and he enjoyed chatting with passersby as he roamed about the beach front in his wheelchair. Missing his New Orleans friends as much as they missed him, he made a habit of waiting in his wheelchair on Beach Boulevard each day when the New Orleans trains passed to or from the city, waving to acquaintances and receiving their greetings.
Refusing thus to allow paralysis to curtail the career for which he had so carefully trained, he continued seeing his patients in Bay St. Louis and writing his articles for some years until at last his infirmity overcame him. He died at the age of 50 and was buried with full Masonic rites in the family tomb in Cedar Rest Cemetery.
[Account prepared by Emily Hosmer de Montluzin and Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, Feb. 2007]