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Pierre Le Moyne was born in July 1661 at Fort Ville-Marie (now Montreal), in the French colony of Canada, the third son [1] of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay, a native of Dieppe or of Longueuil near Dieppe, Normandy in France and lord of Longueuil in Canada, and of Catherine Thierry [] (called Catherine Primot in some sources) from Rouen.
The St. Louis Plantation is a Southern plantation with a historic mansion located in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States.. Built in 1858, the mansion was a replacement for a previous house named Erwin's Castle which was built in 1808 at the same location and was destroyed by a flood in the early 1850s.
Radio-Canada produced D'Iberville in co-production with ORTF (France) and Radio-Télévision Belge (Belgium), Société suisse de radiodiffusion (Switzerland). Episodes were filmed in colour at Île d'Orléans, Quebec with sets which resembled 17th century Quebec. The production featured a reconstruction of d'Iberville's ship, the Pelican. The ...
Location of Iberville Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register ...
In 2000, there were 2,593 households, out of which 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.0% were married couples living together, 22.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.8% were non-families. 26.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of ...
Born near Mobile, then a part of French Louisiana, on May 31, 1760, Simon Favre was the son of Jean Claude Favre (1721–1782) and Marguerite Wiltz (1740–1805). [2] [3] His grandfather, Jean Baptiste Favre, came from Royan, France, [4] and by tradition was a cabin boy when Pierre D'Iberville placed him on shore near Biloxi to make contact with the natives. [5]
Antoine Dubuclet Jr. (1810 – December 18, 1887) was the State Treasurer of Louisiana from 1868 to 1878. Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation. After the war, he was the first person of African descent to hold the office of Louisiana treasurer.
On December 18, 1700, a shallop arrived from the Spanish settlement at Pensacola to the east, with the news that d'Iberville and Serigny had reached there with the king's ships, the Renommée of fifty guns, and the Palmier of 44 guns. This was welcome news to the garrison, which had been living for more than 3 months on little more than corn.