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Pierre Sidrac, Dugue de Boisbriand
1675-1736

ad interim French Governor of Louisiana.(1724-1726)
1675
February 21
Born at Montreal, Canada, son of Michel Sidrac, Canadian Seigneur and Marie Moyen.
1691
Joins the French Navy and rises to the rank of Ensign by 1694.
1700
Joins Iberville on his second voyage to Louisiana and begins going on many of the explorations with his cousins Iberville and Bienville
1703
Boisbriand is aide-major to Bienville on a voyage to Pensacola to borrow supplies from the Spanish settlement there.
1705
Boisbriand is severely wounded while traveling through hostile Choctaw territory with a group of Chickasaw Indians.
He is nursed back to health by Marie-Françoise de Boisrenaud. He falls in love with her, but Bienville will not allow a marriage. She is too closely allied with the Intendant Nicholas LaSalle, with whom Bienville is quarrelling.
1717
Appointed commandant of the Mobile and Dauphine Island District. But soon he is called back to France, where he spends time settling his own affairs and lobbying for the return of Bienville to Louisiana.
1718
April 17
On his return to North America, Boisbriand is named commandant of the Illinois District. He supervises the construction of Fort Chartres.
1724
January
Bienville is recalled to France to answer accusations and Boisbriant, Commandant at Ft. Chartres is appointed ad interim governor of Louisiana until Etienne Perier takes over next year.
1727
March 15
Etienne Perier finally arrives to assume the duties of governor of Louisiana.
1728
Boisbriand leaves New Orleans for France.
1729
Spring
He is censured by the royal court and dismissed from royal service.
1730
Awarded a modest pension.
1736
June 7
Dies in France after Bienville is again governor of Louisiana.
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