Governor of Louisiana, born in Montreal on the 23rd of February 1680; died in France in 1767. With his brother, Le Moyne d’Iberville, he undertook an expedition in 1699 to the mouth of the Mississippi. In 1701 he became director of the colony established by d’Iberville, and moved its capital from Biloxi to Mobile. He was accused of misconduct and discharged, but was reinstated in 1718 by Law, and in 1723 moved the headquarters to New Orleans, which city he had founded in 1718. In 1736, 1739 and 1740 he made unsuccessful expeditions against the Chickasaw Indians, in consequence of which he was removed, and he returned to France in 1743. He published a code which regulated the condition of slaves, prohibited every religion except the Roman Catholic, and banished Jews from the colony; this remained in force until Louisiana was purchased by the United States.
