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	Lalonde Family Web Site - Chapel of St. Louis
		As early as the 6th of December 1682, Pierre Lormier is described in the register of Lachine as "an inhabitant of the Haut de L' Isle de Montréal, mission of this parish." The birth of "Marie Magdeleine Correau, fille de Cibard Courreau, Sieur de la Coste," was recorded in the registry of Lachine by Mr.
		Pierre Camus dit La Feuillade, killed by the Indians on the 18th of October, 1687 was buried on the 19th, "near the spot intended for the cemetery, near the parish church of St. Louis;" and on the same day, J. Bte.
		Le Sieur dit La Hogue, also killed by the Iroquois on the 18th of October, was buried "on the spot intended for the cemetery of the parish of St. Louis." Louis Jets, miller (meunier engagé) of Mr.
	web.uvic.ca /~lalonde/history/chapel.html (1987 words)

	CADILLAC'S VILLAGE or DETROIT UNDER CADILLAC.
		Pierre Chesne (or Chene, as it is now commonly called), was one of the most important men of that early day, and many of his descendants still reside in Detroit.
		La Moyne, Marie, wife of Francois Bienvenue, dit Delisle, married in 1708.
		La Mothe Cadillac's wife, as she was god-mother to his daughter, Marie Therese, in 1704.
	mlloyd.org /texts/cadillac.htm (18498 words)

	Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, (20 July 1661 – (probably) 9 July 1706), founder of the colony of Louisiana, was born at Ville-Marie, Montreal, Quebec on 16 July 1661.
		He was the third son of Charles Le Moyne, a native of Dieppe in France and lord of Longueuil in Canada, and of Catharine Primot.
		Iberville became a sailor at an early age and served as a volunteer under the Chevalier de Troyes in Hudson Bay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_La_Moyne (606 words)

	The Virtual Museum of New-France: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
		Baptised at Ville-Marie on July 20, 1661, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville is the third of eleven boys and three girls born from the marriage of Catherine Thierry-Primot to Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil, a merchant in Montréal.
		Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville was born in a time when one had to fight to survive in New France.
		Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville is only 25 years old when, on August 10, 1686, the chevalier Pierre de Troyes entrusts him with the command of the posts which have just fallen to the French.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/iber_e2.html (1171 words)

	Robert La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert La Salle was born in Rouen, France on November 22, 1643.
		While La Salle was in the north he was told of a great river that lead into the ocean.
		Pierre la Moyne and Jean Baptist were the new leaders to try to rebuild the settlement La Salle left behind.
	www.ih.k12.oh.us /eshonesty/honexpo2/robert_la_salle.htm (284 words)

	EarlyChicagoHOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As the wife of La Flamme she might have lived at Chicagou in 1763, when there were “a few French families” present, but they were at Cahokia by 1772 when her daughter married Joseph Languedoc there.
		Pierre Le Moyne, seigneur d`Iberville et d`Ardillières (1661-1707) was Charles and Catherine`s third and most illustrious son; he established his reputation as a heroic soldier and sea captain in the defense of French trade interests in James Bay and Hudson Bay against English encroachment.
		In 1698, the French king determined to repeat La Salle`s effort, unsuccessful in 1685, to colonize at the mouth of the Mississippi, and he entrusted Pierre Le Moyne with the task.
	www.earlychicago.com /encyclopedia.php?letter=L (9612 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		La Barre justified himself this time by reviving a former complaint by Duchesneau: La Salle, by his imprudent relations with the enemies of the Five Nations, was compromising the peace negotiations between the French and the Iroquois.
		Pierre Le Moyne* d’Iberville was to note later: “M. de La Salle, although a man who passed for being clever, has marked the lower part of the Mississippi, on the map he has made, with 273 degrees.
		La Salle’s demands, according to Beaujeu, created “a great commotion at Rochefort among the officers, each one saying that a passenger had never been known to lay claim to being in command on a ship.” Furthermore, he did not scruple to add, “There are very few who do not believe he is crazy.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34231 (9781 words)

	Pierre LeMoyne d' Iberville: Discoverer of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
		La Salle victoriously sailed to France with the claim that the way to Canada could be accomplished by ship through this great river which emptied into the Gulf of Mexico.
		La Salle then led an expedition back to establish a colony at the mouth of the river and thus enable France to control this immense territory.
		Pierre LeMoyne established himself as a soldier and had fought to keep the English out of the Hudson Bay area (and also Newfoundland) and made a name for himself as a naval commander during King Williams' War (1697) in Canada.
	www.datasync.com /~davidg59/biloxi1.html (5738 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He placed the expedition under the overall command of Pierre de Troyes, whom he was later to describe as the colony’s most able captain.
		As befitted a son of Charles Le Moyne, indeed any Canadian schooled on the beaver frontier of North America, Iberville believed that contact with the native population and mingling with the Indians were essential to any sound diplomacy.
		It was in Louisiana especially that Iberville and his brothers, with a view to reconciling the general development of the colony and their own individual interests, apparently sought to master all aspects of trade.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35062 (9058 words)

	PIN LA GARENNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		La Peloniere attached to the Pin served as the castle for the "Seigneur" as well as barracks for the soldiers.
		Anne Cloutier died at la Chandeleur and was buried at Quebec on 4 February.
		Marie Chappelier, widow of Pierre Petit, a native of Compte Robert-en-Brie, daughter of Jean and Marguerite Dodier, accepted him as her husband.
	www.travel-net.com /~drouin/drouin1.htm (3552 words)

	NEW FRANCE 1660 - 1663
		(I)-Pierre Du Bois, Baron d'Avaugour (Davaugour) (died 1664), Governor of New France August 31, 1661 to July 23, 1663, is the last Governor to serve Compagnie des Centassocies.
		Pierre is classified as a greedy man with a lust for conquest for personal financial gain, but is dedicated to France.
		In 1665 Bishop Laval annuled the still-barren marriage of Pierre Gadois and Marie Pontonnier on the grounds of "permanent impotence caused by witchcraft".
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/french17.htm (2810 words)

	American Journeys Background on Memoir on La Salle’s Discoveries, 1678-1690
		In 1678, he was recommended to La Salle, and served as the explorer’s devoted lieutenant for the next decade.
		La Salle received royal approval to develop the region near what is now Kingston, Ontario, but he soon grew bored.
		La Salle and Tonti spent the winter among the Illinois and during their stay, a group of men tried to poison them and then deserted.
	www.americanjourneys.org /aj-053/summary/index.asp (733 words)

	List of Governors of Louisiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac 1713-1716
		Sebastian de la Puerta y O'Farril, Marquis de Casa Calvo 1799-1801
		Note: from 1804 to 1812, what would later become the State of Louisiana was known as the "Orleans Territory".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Louisiana_Governors (130 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Iberville Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d’
		Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de (1680-1768), French-Canadian explorer and colonial administrator, founder of Biloxi, Mississippi and...
		La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de (1685-1749), Canadian explorer, born in Trois-Rivières, Québec.
		Le Moyne, François (1688–1737), French painter, remembered for the decoration of the vault of the Salon d'Hercules at Versailles, containing 142...
	encarta.msn.com /Iberville_Pierre_Le_Moyne_Sieur_d%E2%80%99.html (186 words)

	French explorers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sieur de La Verendrye (lah vay RAHN dree) (1685-1749), Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, was a French-Canadian fur trader and explorer.
		In 1731, La Verendrye, three of his sons, and a nephew set out from Montreal to find an overland route to the Pacific Ocean.
		Along the way, La Verendrye established outposts that served as forts and fur-trading stations, and he claimed much land for the French king.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/explorers/html/saga_french.html (623 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Le Moyne
		On reaching Canada in 1641, he spent four years in the Huron country, and then settled at Ville-Marie, his knowledge of the Indian languages rendering him useful as an interpreter, and his valour contributing to defend the colony.
		He was the father of fourteen children, seven of whom honoured Canada by their prowess, three dying in battle and four becoming governors of cities or provinces.
		After serving in France, he returned to Canada with the rank of lieutenant, and, at the age of twenty-seven, was appointed major of Montreal by Governor de la Barre.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09148b.htm (1008 words)

	Pass Manchac Lighthouse, Louisiana at Lighthousefriends.com
		In 1682, French explorer La Salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River by sailing down the river from French settlements in the Great Lakes region.
		A few years later, La Salle attempted to find the Mississippi from the Gulf, but ended up in Texas, and was assassinated while trying to make it back to the river.
		Under the direction of Jerome de Pontchartrain, minister of the Marine of France, a second expedition led by Pierre Le Moyne Sieur d’Iberville was dispatched to locate the river in 1698.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=809 (1248 words)

	Personalities of Louisiana: Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur de Iberville
		He is the third of 14 children, 11 sons and 3 daughters, born to Charles and Catherine (Primot) Le Moyne.
		It is an opportunity that had been neglected since the death of La Salle more than ten years before.
		Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur de Iberville will be selected by Count Pontchartrain, the French minister of the Navy, to command an expedition to Louisiana.
	www.enlou.com /people/ibervillep-bio.htm (1403 words)

	Pierre Le Moyne Iberville
		IBERVILLE, Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d' founder of Louisiana, born in Montreal, Canada, 16 July, 1661; died in Havana, Cuba, 9 July, 1706.
		A letter from Tonti to La Salle, written in 1686, was given to the party by the Indians, and satisfied them that they were really on the Mississippi.
		In 1706, with his fleet, he captured the island of Nevis, and was about to cruise off the coast of North Carolina, when he was stricken with a fatal malady and taken to Havana.
	www.famousamericans.net /pierrelemoyneiberville (744 words)

	The Virtual Museum of New-France: Pierre de Troyes
		The Governor, Jacques-René de Brisay, Marquis de Denonville, the successor to Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre, is aboard the same ship.
		Denonville immediately throws his support behind the Compagnie du Nord or Compagnie française de la baie d'Hudson, which had been created five years earlier at the instigation of de Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye.
		They are Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Paul Le Moyne de Maricourt et Jacques Le Moyne de Sainte-Hélène, all from Montréal.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/troy_e2.html (1045 words)

	La Louisiane!
		René Calvelier, sieur de la Salle, took possession of Louisiana in 1682 in the name of King Louis XIV.
		During later expeditions, La Salle explored the territory of Texas and founded fort Saint-Louis which was later destroyed by Native-Americains.
		In 1699, colonizers came from Canada along with Pierre le Moyne Sieur d'Iberville and his brother Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
	www.miquelon.net /louisiane/english/e-louisiane.html (440 words)

	SuperPages.com: About Louisiana
		La Salle claimed Louisiana for France in 1682.
		Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, first came to the state in 1699.
		His brother Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, founded New Orleans in 1718, three years after the founding of Natchitoches by Cavalier St. Denis.
	www.superpages.com /cities/unitedstates/Louisiana-more.html (596 words)

	Belain, Pierre, sieur d'esnambuc -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1880 a westward-building Chicago and North Western Railway reached the east bank of the Missouri River at what is now Pierre, the capital of South Dakota and the seat of Hughes County.
		The site then was no more than a ferry landing for Fort Pierre, a military fort on the west bank that had been named for the fur trader and entrepreneur Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
		Accuses Pierre of stereotyping and "ghettoizing" this genre and of poor journalism.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015173?tocId=9015173 (680 words)

	Empire of the Bay: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
		Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville was a French-Canadian naval hero and one of Britain's most difficult New World foes.
		Iberville, who grew up in Montreal, was sent to France as a young man to serve in the Navy.
		In 1699, he explored the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and established Fort Maurepas, near present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
	www.pbs.org /empireofthebay/profiles/iberville.html (280 words)

	King William County History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The new town was situated on land conveyed by John West III and three siblings to King and Queen County for establishment of a regional port.
		French brothers, Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, and Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, founded the first permanent European settlement in what is now Alabama at Fort Louis de la Mobile, near the present-day City of Mobile.
		Along with settlements in Biloxi, Mississippi and Louisiana, Fort Louis de la Mobile was designed to check the Spanish advance in the region, control the present-day Gulf coast of the United States and prevent potential English occupation of the lower Mississippi River area.
	www.co.king-william.va.us /history_tourism.htm (4653 words)

	Anthologie de la poésie française.
		Dans la nuit du tombeau, toi qui m'as consolé, Rends-moi le Pausilippe et la mer d'Italie, La fleur qui plaisait tant à mon coeur désolé, Et la treille où le pampre à la rose s'allie.
		Je suis l'Empire à la fin de la décadence, Qui regarde passer les grands Barbares blancs En composant des acrostiches indolents D'un style d'or où la langueur du soleil danse.
		La pluye nous a debues et lavez, Et le soleil dessechiez et noircis; Pies, corbeaulx, nous ont les yeux caves, Et arrachie la barbe et les sourcis.
	cage.rug.ac.be /~dc/Poetry/Francais.html (1387 words)

	New Orleans, LA Louisiana Hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hotel Directory for New Orleans, LA Click on a New Orleans, Louisiana Hotel Name to learn more about this hotel and to make reservations for that hotel.
		Established in 1991, the Fairchild House is an 1841 Greek revival house with two adjacent guest houses.
		Pierre combines the charm of century-old buildings with all the conveniences of a modern hotel.
	www.mycitytravelguide.com /states/LA-New_Orleans.html (3292 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville
		He was the third son of Charles Le Moyne, a native of Dieppe Sieur de Longueuil in Canada, and of Catharine Primot.
		He was capitaine de vaisseau in the French navy and was said to have been as "military as his sword." He was an able sailor, soldier, explorer, and colonizer.
		JODOIN AND VINCENT, Histoire de Longueil et de la Famille de Longueuil (Montreal, 1889); Journal of Iberville in MARGRY, Origines Francaises des Pays d'Outremer (Paris, 1881), IV; FORTIER, History of Louisiana (New York, 1904), I. ALCÉE FORTIER
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07614b.htm (692 words)

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