Ultimately, Saint-Georges's matrilineal line needs more research, but Nanon, his mother's name, was unusual - not only in French culture, but also for an  
enslaved woman in the eighteenth-century French Atlantic. 'Nanon' is 'Anne' in Hebrew. Thus, the name she went by suggests that her family's history of enslavement may have included bondage to a crypto-Jewish family or Jewish owners, prior to the expulsion of Jews from the French Caribbean colonies in 1685. It also seems that, sometime after she was emancipated, she gave herself a surname and signed her will, bequeathing all her possessions to SaintGeorges, as Anne Danneveau. This choice of surname may suggest a conscious identification with the diverse, martial world of the eighteenth-century French Atlantic world that made possible the social mobility of not only her son but also many other newcomers. Indeed, members of the van Bolongien family had also taken up military service to cement their naturalized status as de Bologne(s), and almost all of Saint-Georges's patrilineal forebears had served as musketeers. Danneveau, the gentleman from Picardy, appears as one of the original Musketeers in Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras' popular, fictionalized depiction of Charles de Batz de Castelmore (1611-1673), called Monsieur d'Artagnan in Les Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan (1700). D'Artagnan was a famous seventeenth-century military figure whose early career, like that of Anne's son Joseph, included service in the King's guard. De Sandras' novel later inspired Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844).