Iberville

British

/ ibɛrvil /

noun

Pierre le Moyne (pjɛr lə mwan), Sieur d'. 1661–1706, French-Canadian explorer, who founded (1700) the first French colony in Louisiana

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The Iberville Parish Council said in a statement early Saturday that no hazards had been detected and that people could leave their homes as Dow’s emergency crews “continue to mitigate the fire.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2023

By the 1880s, he had found his way to Iberville Parish, where dozens of the people enslaved by the Jesuits had ended up.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2022

The proposal calls for tearing down two century-old buildings on Canal Street and another building on Iberville Street.

From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2019

East Baton Rouge Parish won a temporary restraining order against the AquaDams that Iberville Parish planned to deploy along Bayou Manchac.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2019

“Passably. Where are you going? to New York? to Iberville? to your father in Mississippi? where?”

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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