Mar 7  Jean Baptist Bienville
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 07/03/2016

Ed Gaudet presents a Natchez History Minute about Jean Baptist, Sieur de Bienville, an early French explorer and repeated governor of Louisiana who died on this day, March 7, 1767. Bienville founded Fort Rosalie in 1716 and two years later, the City of New Orleans.