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==Background==
==Background==
Fournet was the oldest of ten children born to Louis Michel Fournet, a wealthy [[sugar]] planter, and the former Marcelite Gauthier in Martinsville] in St. Martin Parish in south Louisiana. He attended public schools in St. Martin Parish, and in 1913, he became a [[teacher]] in a one-room [[rural]] schoolhouse in southwestern Louisiana. In 1915, he graduated with honors from [[Northwestern State University]] (then Louisiana State Normal College) in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and returned to his teaching career. He taught in Vernon, Jefferson Davis, and Pointe Coupee parishes. At the age of twenty, he was already the principal of Morganza High School in the [[village]] of Morganza in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Fournet was the oldest of ten children born to Louis Michel Fournet, a wealthy [[sugar]] planter, and the former Marcelite Gauthier in Martinsville in St. Martin Parish in south Louisiana. He attended public schools in St. Martin Parish, and in 1913, he became a [[teacher]] in a one-room [[rural]] schoolhouse in southwestern Louisiana. In 1915, he graduated with honors from [[Northwestern State University]] (then Louisiana State Normal College) in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] and returned to his teaching career. He taught in Vernon, Jefferson Davis, and Pointe Coupee parishes. At the age of twenty, he was already the principal of Morganza High School in the [[village]] of Morganza in Pointe Coupee Parish.
During [[World War I]], Fournet was a private in the [[United States Army]] at Camp Martin in Louisiana and then Camp Hancock in [[Georgia]] but was not assigned outside the country.
During [[World War I]], Fournet was a private in the [[United States Army]] at Camp Martin in Louisiana and then Camp Hancock in [[Georgia]] but was not assigned outside the country.