Jourdain’s skills as a metalworker are highlighted in this finely crafted carving fork made in the early 1820s. The initials ARDP among the decorative inlays are thought to stand for A Rapides des Pères, which was a settlement on the Fox River just south of Green Bay and today is the community of De Pere. Jourdain purportedly made the fork as a wedding gift for his daughter Madeline Jourdain. In 1823 she married Eleazer Williams, a missionary to the Menominee in Green Bay. Williams later gained national notoriety when he claimed to be the “Lost Dauphin” of France—the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.