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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (Montreal, 23 de febrero de 1680 - 7 de marzo de 1767) fue un colonizador y gobernador de la colonia francesa de Luisiana. Era un hermano menor del explorador Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville y fue también llamado Sieur de Bienville .
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə mwan də bjɛ̃vil]; / l ə ˈ m ɔɪ n d ə b i ˈ ɛ n v ɪ l /; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.
17 de abr. de 2024 · Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (baptized Feb. 23, 1680, Montreal, New France [now in Canada]—died March 7, 1767, Paris, Fr.) was a French explorer, colonial governor of Louisiana, and founder of New Orleans. Jean-Baptiste was the eighth son of Canadian pioneer Charles Le Moyne.
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, né le 23 février 1680 à Montréal (Nouvelle-France) et mort le 7 mars 1767 à Paris (paroisse Saint-Eustache), appelé aussi Sieur de Bienville ou encore Lemoine de Bienville, est un explorateur français de Montréal, deuxième gouverneur de la Louisiane.
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was an explorer, colonial administrator, and Lieutenant in the French Navy during the Nine Years' War and the Chickasaw Wars. He was known as the “Father” of Louisiana and the French settlement of New Orleans.
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, who was born in Montreal in 1680 and died in Paris in 1767, is often presented by historians as the “father of Louisiana”. Given his wanderings and fields of action, he would better fit the description as a man of the Atlantic, with one foot in the American colonies and the other in France.
LE MOYNE DE BIENVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, officer, explorer, governor of Louisiana; baptized as an infant 23 Feb. 1680 in Montreal; son of Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil et de Châteauguay and Catherine Thierry (Primot); d. 7 March 1767 in Paris, France.
