Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (23 February 23 1680 Montreal, Quebec – March 7, 1767).  He helped colonise North America for France, and was    governor of French Louisiana 4 separate times between 1701 and 1743. He is also known as Sieur de Bienville.   The name Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville is
   pronounced, in the French manner, as "Zhan-Bap-teest
   Lay-Moin day Bee-ahn-Veel" or "Vill" depending on
   regional accents in Canada, America or France.
   In the U.S. the Anglicized pronunciation is typically
   "Bee-ENN-vill". The title Sieur is spoken as either
   "sure" or "sir".  

His older brother was the explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. 

Notes

References
 Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de. "Account made by Bienville of his Expedition against the Chickasaws." trans. Caroline and Eleanor Dunn in Indiana's First War. Indiana Historical Society Publications 8. Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1924. 75-123.

 Davis, Edwin Adams. Louisiana the Pelican State. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1961. LCCN 59:9088.

Other websites

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Bienville biography at University of South Alabama Archaeology website
Bienville biography at the Library of Congress' France in America digital library (English and French)

Category:1680 births
Category:1767 deaths

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Category:Governors of Louisiana
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