Ignace François Broutin
Illustration — Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, 1733 • Illustration — The Wolf River's watershed (everything above the red dotted line), as surveyed in 1740 by Ignace Francois Broutin, chief engineer of French Louisiana. The French had named the Wolf "Riviere a Margot" • Illustration — A postcard of the ruins of Fort Rosalie, 1907 Ignace François Broutin (La Bassée, 1690 –1751) was a French Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis military officer, commander of Fort Rosalie among the Natchez people, and later an architect and Captain of Engineers of the King in the Province in colonial Louisiana.
Ignace François Broutin
Ignace François Broutin · http: id=FR_ANOM_F3-290-10 · Public domain
- Born
- 1690 · La Bassée.
- Died
- 1751 · Louisiana.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- military engineer · architect · cartographer
- Known for
- Old Ursuline Convent
- Honours
- Order of Saint Louis
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, 1733 • Illustration — The Wolf River's watershed (everything above the red dotted line), as surveyed in 1740 by Ignace Francois Broutin, chief engineer of French Louisiana. The French had named the Wolf "Riviere a Margot" • Illustration — A postcard of the ruins of Fort Rosalie, 1907 Ignace François Broutin (La Bassée, 1690 –1751) was a French Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis military officer, commander of Fort Rosalie among the Natchez people, and later an architect and Captain of Engineers of the King in the Province in colonial Louisiana.
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Born at La Bassée in 1690, died in Louisiana in 1751.
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1690
Ignace François Broutin born at La Bassée.
1751
Ignace François Broutin died at Louisiana.
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- 1.Regio Basiliensis - Volumes 18 à 20 - Page 68 Geographisch-Ethnologische Gesellschaft Basel - 1977 "... der Witwe Marie-Madelaine Le-Maire verehelichte, belegen, dass dieser, ein Sohn von Pierre Broutin und Michèle la Mairée, um 1690/91 in la Bassée, einem Flecken bei der heutigen Stadt Lille in Nordfrankreich zur Welt gekommen war.
- 2."Creole Families of New Orleans, by Grace Elizabeth King; Macmillan; USA; 1981, p. 75."
- 3."Research Laboratories of Archeology: Colonial Louisiana: Early Architectural Drawings
- 4.Vestiges of Grandeur: Plantations of Louisiana's River Road, by Richard Sexton; Chronicle Books; USA; 1999, p. 18. .
- 5.Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet De Kernion Old Families of Louisiana; 1998, pp. 91-92, 123, 322: "Madeleine Marguerite Broutin, daughter of Ignace François Broutin, royal engineer in the colony and commandant of the Natchez Post, and Madeline le Maire."
- 6."The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly, Vol. XXVII, Number 2; Spring 2010, p. 9."
- 7."Historic marker dedication held at De La Ronde Ruins in Chalmette" ; The Times-Picayune; December 8, 2014.
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