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  2. History of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    New Orleans was founded in early 1718 by the French as La Nouvelle-Orléans, ... French and German settlers, hoping to restore New Orleans to French control, ...

  3. New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in the spring of 1718 (May 7 has become the traditional date to mark the anniversary, but the actual day is unknown) [40] by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha.

  4. Timeline of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Orleans (future state of Louisiana) is established, with the seat of government in New Orleans. 1805 – New Orleans incorporated as a city; 1806 – New Orleans Mechanics Society instituted. [5] 1810 – Population: 17,242. [6] 1811 – Largest slave revolt in American history occurs nearby, with Orleans Parish involved in its ...

  5. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə mwan də bjɛ̃vil]; / l ə ˈ m ɔɪ n d ə b i ˈ ɛ n v ɪ l /; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.

  6. French Quarter - Wikipedia

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    The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans.After New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the Vieux Carré ("Old Square" in English), a central square.

  7. French colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    As they colonized the New World, the French established forts and settlements that would become such cities as Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal in Canada; Detroit, Green Bay, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge and New Orleans in the United States; and Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haïtien (founded as Cap-Français) in Haiti ...

  8. La Balize, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    By 1722 the center of the French colony was in New Orleans. In the early 18th century, the Roman Catholic Church quickly established seven pioneer parishes in the Louisiana colony, among them the parish at La Balize, founded in 1722. The French also founded four pioneer parishes in early villages of what are now Mississippi and Alabama. [5]

  9. The Presbytere - Wikipedia

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    The Presbytère is an architecturally important building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It stands facing Jackson Square , adjacent to the St. Louis Cathedral . Built in 1813 as a matching structure for the Cabildo , which flanks the cathedral on the other side, it is one of the nation's best examples of formal colonial Spanish ...