The Perilloux Family is one of the First Families of Louisiana according to history books, with the first Perilloux coming from France, as a soldier fighting for France, to New Orleans in the early 1740's--Jacques Perilloux, my great-great-great-great grandfather. He never returned to France.
I could sing La Marseillaise" in French when I was four years old.
My mother was mostly of German heritage but her paternal grandmother was a DeNoyer from France. My mother spoke Parisian French fluently until the day she died.