Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 158
Land area (2000): 11.029673 sq. miles (28.566722 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.014009 sq. miles (0.036282 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.043682 sq. miles (28.603004 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07205
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.352635 N, 92.976816 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71008
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bienville
Housing Units (2000): 7830
Land area (2000): 810.638799 sq. miles (2099.544763 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.127811 sq. miles (28.820898 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 821.766610 sq. miles (2128.365661 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.393397 N, 93.043465 W
Headwords:
Bienville, LA
Bienville Parish
Bienville Parish, LA
Wikipedia
Bienville may refer to:
People:
- Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville (1680–1767), colonizer/governor of Louisiana, several times during the years 1701-1743;
- Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville (also known as Celeron de Bienville), French colonial explorer of the Ohio Valley
Places:
- Bienville, Louisiana, a village (pop. 260) in northern Louisiana, USA
- Bienville, Oise, a commune in France in Oise
Ships:
-
, a passenger sidewheel steamer commissioned into the U.S. Navy as a gunboat during the American Civil War
See also:
- Bienville Parish, Louisiana, a parish in Louisiana, USA
- Bienville National Forest in Mississippi, USA
Usage examples of "bienville".
The governor stood before him, haughty and stern, surrounded by French and Canadian officers, Maricourt, Sainte-Helene, Longueuil, Villebon, Valrenne, Bienville, and many more, bedecked with gold lace and silver lace, perukes and powder, plumes and ribbons, and all the martial foppery in which they took delight, and regarding the envoy with keen, defiant eyes.
It is still the river of Marquette and Joliet, Nicolet, Groseilliers and Radisson, La Salle and Tonty, Hennepin and Accau, Gray Gowns and Black Gowns, Iberville and Bienville, St.
In the offer of this young Canadian and his brother Bienville were the purposes that gave substantial foundation to Louisiana.
And the reality which confronts the home seeker is usually more nearly true to the idealistic details than that which Governor Cadillac, wishing no doubt to discredit his predecessor, reported when he went to succeed Bienville for a time as governor: "I have seen the garden on Dauphin Island, which had been described to me as a terrestrial paradise.
Long later (1749), the first of whom we have record after La Salle, another French sower went forth to sow along the rivers close to the foot of the Alleghany Mountains--Celoron de Bienville, Chevalier de St.
Unfortunately she had mislaid or lost Mademoiselle Reisz’s card, and looking up her address in the city directory, she found that the woman lived on Bienville Street, some distance away.
In truth, he did not want to know her at all, or anything concerning her — the most disagreeable and unpopular woman who ever lived in Bienville Street.
Unfortunately she had mislaid or lost Mademoiselle Reisz's card, and looking up her address in the city directory, she found that the woman lived on Bienville Street, some distance away.
In truth, he did not want to know her at all, or anything concerning her—the most disagreeable and unpopular woman who ever lived in Bienville Street.
She had been told that Bienville genuinely loved this wild place and wished desperately to see it prosper.
When she pleaded exhaustion and Bienville left, Marie-Thérèse took stock of her house.
They had been friendly and cooperative with Bienville, and visited the colony often, but Marie-Thérèse had never seen them.
When search parties were unsuccessful, Bienville wrote to the Duc de Marais that his wife was dead.
D'Aillebout de Mantet and Le Moyne de Sainte-Helene, the brave son of Charles Le Moyne, had the chief command, supported by the brothers Le Moyne d'Iberville and Le Moyne de Bienville, with Repentigny de Montesson, Le Ber du Chesne, and others of the sturdy Canadian _noblesse_, nerved by adventure and trained in Indian warfare.
Young Francois de Bienville, one of the sons of Charles Le Moyne, rushed up to a window, shouted his name like an Indian warrior, fired on the savages within, and was instantly shot dead.