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La Tour (surname)
La Tour (as distinct from Latour) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593–1666), French Governor of Acadia * Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), French Baroque painter * Frances de la Tour, English actress * House of La Tour d'Auvergne, French noble family * Henri de la Tour (other), multiple people ** Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1636-1721) ** Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730) **Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (1679-1753), Count of Évreux, builder of Élysée Palace **Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (1743–1800), French officer under Napoleon * LaTour, stage name of American artist William "Bud" LaTour * Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), French Rococo portraitist See also * Latour (other) Latour may refer to: People * LaTour, American musician Surname * House of Baillet ** Alfred de Baillet Latour (1901–1980), **Henri de Bai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Saint-Étienne De La Tour
Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour (1593–1666) was a French colonist and fur trader who served as Governor of Acadia from 1631–1642 and again from 1653–1657. Early life Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour was born in France in 1593 to Huguenot Claude de Saint-Étienne de la Tour and his wife Marie Amador de Salazar, a descendant of Georges de La Trémoille, the Grand Chamberlain of France to King Charles VII of France. In 1610, at the age of 17, Charles arrived at Port-Royal in Acadia with his father in an expedition led by Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt who had been one of the original settlers in 1604 at Saint Croix Island, Maine before they moved in 1605 to their permanent settlement at Port-Royal. The habitation had been previously abandoned in 1607 by Biencourt de Poutrincourt and others due to financial troubles. The 1610 expedition also included Poutrincourt's 19-year-old son Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just and a Catholic priest who set about the task of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
