Eugène Petit (c1820-c1880)

Eugène Petit left France with his father Alexis Petit, his mother Gabrielle and younger brother Paul Petit in the wake of the French Revolution of 1830. They first went to Constantinople and then to Odessa, finally settling in Iaşi, Moldavia around 1840. For a time he was secretary of the French consulate in Iaşi.