Céloron de Blainville is a French family of officers and colonial administrators, who notably played a role in

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beginning in the 17th century. One member,

Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville Pierre-Joseph Céloron de Blainville (29December 169314April 1759), also known as Celeron de Bienville (or Céleron, or Céloron, etc.), was a French Canadian Officer of Marine. In 1739 and 1740 he led a detachment to Louisiana to fight the Chicka ...

, is the subject of a folk song by Robert Schmertz entitled Celoron.

Persons

Famous Céloron de Blainville family are : *Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Blainville (born 1660 in

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(

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), still living in 1730), "seigneur" of

Blainville, Quebec Blainville () is a suburb of Montreal located on the North Shore in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Blainville forms part of the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality within the Laurentides region of Quebec. The town sits at the foo ...

. He married Hélène Picoté de Belestre, daughter of a military commander of

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. * his son

(1693–1759), leader of the 1749

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expedition. * Paul Louis Maxime Celoron de Blainville (1831–1889), gouvernor of

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in 1887-1888 Son of Pierre-Louis Céloron de Blainville (1753-??) and grandson of Pierre Joseph Céloron.

Attention

The way of writing Céloron de Blainville is often wrong especially in modern documents : * "Céloron" (or often ''Celoron'' in texts in English) is often miswritten "Celeron" or "Céleron", because of confusion with the Intel

Celeron Celeron is a series of IA-32 and x86-64 computer microprocessor, microprocessors targeted at low-cost Personal computer, personal computers, manufactured by Intel from 1998 until 2023. The first Celeron-branded CPU was introduced on April 15, ...

chipset of 2002. * "Blainville" is often miswritten "Bienville", because of confusion with the name of the New France hero

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (; ; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appo ...

. * So the writing "Celeron de Bienville" is common on the Internet but wrong.

Places

From the family Céloron de Blainville, came : *

Celoron, New York Celoron ( ) is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Ellicott and sits on the west boundary of the city of Jamestown. The population of Celoron was 1,082 at the 2020 census. History Celoron Park ...

, a village in

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state, USA. *Boulevard Céloron, in Blainville,

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. *

, a city in Quebec. * Blainville (electoral district) in Quebec.

References

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