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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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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

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

The parishes that will share in grant dollars are: Calcasieu, Concordia, Iberville, Jefferson, Orleans, Rapides, St. John the Baptist, and Tangipahoa parishes.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2018

I am traveling south on Highway 1 through Iberville Parish, Louisiana.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2017

She stopped at a confectioner’s and ordered a huge box of bonbons for the children in Iberville.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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