François 'Pierre' Le Claire

Parents. Son of Alexandre II Le Clerc (1652–1695), Minor Lord of Lorraine.

Spouse. Marie-Anne Du Moine (known locally as “Nanon”).

Married Marie-Anne Du Moine, known locally as “Nanon” — the familiar Lorraine diminutive by which she appears in parish and household records.

Children. Father of Jean Pierre Le Claire (1718–1793), through whom the direct ancestral line continues.

François 'Pierre' Le Claire (b. 1684) stands at the junction between the old Leclerc de Pulligny family of Lorraine and the later Le Claire family of the eighteenth century. By his generation the family name is consistently registered in parish books under the spelling Le Claire, marking the visible transition from the earlier Le Clerc house into the documented Le Claire line.

He lived during the reign of Louis XIV and the integration of Alsace into the Kingdom of France — the moment in which the family began the long eastward movement that would carry it across the Rhine. Through him the direct line continues to his son Jean Pierre Le Claire and ultimately to the modern Le Claire descendants.

François 'Pierre' is the first fully documented Le Claire generation in the direct line — the bridge between the Pulligny noble house of Lorraine and the eighteenth-century Le Claire family.