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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
French colonial governor of Louisiana
For other uses, see Bienville (disambiguation).
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃batistləmwandəbjɛ̃vil]; ; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.
Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four separate times during 1701–1743. He was the younger brother of explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville.
Early life
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne was the son of Charles le Moyne, born in Longueil, near Dieppe, and Catherine Primot (also known as Catherine Thierry), born in Rouen, both cities in the Province of Normandy.
Charles le Moyne established his family in the settlement of Ville-Marie (present day Montreal) at an early age and had fourteen children.
Exploration in the New World
At the age of seventeen, Bienville joined his brother Iberville