Francois Pierre Crouton is the founding patriarch of the family that originally owned the Misty Acres Plantation featured in the Colonel's Bequest.
As recorded in the Crouton Family Bible discovered by Laura Bow, Francois was born in 1787 and died in 1832. Francois married Claudette Marie Tourte (1796-1856) in 1815. They had two children, Thomas (1816) and Claude (1819).
A large monument to Francois and Claudette can be found in the cemetery behind the Chapel at Misty Acres.