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Bienville

American  
[byan-veel] / byɛ̃ˈvil /

noun

  1. Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de 1680–1768, French governor of Louisiana.


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This year, Bienville Bites food tour is offering a socially distanced murder mystery and scavenger hunt as well as a Carnival brunch tour.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2021

“I do not see how settlers can be placed on this river,” Iberville’s brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville wrote to the authorities in Paris, explaining the retreat.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

But there’s something about Bienville that rings true, something about the plight of small towns all over the South struggling to remain relevant in a modern economy.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019

A group of Chinese investors has agreed to construct a billion-dollar paper mill on the outskirts of Bienville, bringing jobs and eventual prosperity back to the town.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2019

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.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin