This just in; there are certain court jesters and clowns from the court of Louis 16th who sought to imitate Louis who was poisoned and made unavailable for public functions with arsenic.  It cut his gut. Many of the look-a-likes and impostors were arrested as criminals and escaped to Madagascar in the 18th Century.     Some escaped afterwards to New Zealand. Then, they escaped to the West Indies in 1901 with the understanding that there were more French Creoles in the area. Their entire modus operandi was to frustrate the civil administration in the Brit Milah under not only the French but also the English.