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Ignace François Broutin (

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, 1690–1751) was a French Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis military officer, commander of Fort Rosalie among the

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, and later an architect and Captain of Engineers of the King in the Province in colonial

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. He is chiefly remembered for designing the Ursuline Convent, completed by 1753 and the oldest and only surviving

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building in

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. A native of

in northern France, Broutin arrived in Louisiana in 1720 and married Madeleine la Maire (likely a cousin - his mother's maiden name was la Mairée), widow of François Philippe de Marigny and mother of

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. In 1748, his daughter, Madeleine Marguerite de Broutin, married a grandson of

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and

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, René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, Louis-Xavier Martin de Lino de Chalmette. The de Lino

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, called "Chalmette", became the site of the 1815

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, and was later adopted as the name of the

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: Chalmette. Their son, Ignace de Lino, reportedly died suddenly, a month later, devastated by the extensive damage to his inherited family mansion during the Battle. In the year following the 1755 death of her first husband, de Lino, Madeleine Broutin, then 35, wed another grandson of René Chartier's,

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Pierre Denys de La Ronde. Their only son together, Colonel Pierre Denis de La Ronde, played an "essential" role in the Battle of New Orleans, which had also claimed his

, bordering the

of his half-brother, de Lino. La Ronde's mansion was, first, the main site of the definitive Night Battle, December 23–24, 1814, in which General

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lost his life. At least two descendants reflected his architectural legacy: grandson Colonel Denis de La Ronde (1762–1824), whose stately "house was similar in plan and exterior to the Ursuline Convent designed by Broutin" (albeit now widely misnamed as

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), today an historic

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;"Historic marker dedication held at De La Ronde Ruins in Chalmette"
; ''

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''; December 8, 2014. and his niece, the tragic, yet highly creative survivor of the murderous Baron Joseph Delfau de Pontalba's final attempt to steal her fortune. Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba, whose personal legacy endures, as does her great-grandfather's, with the famed

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gracing Jackson Square in the

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, and with the

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of the

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, the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boutin, Ignace Francois 18th-century French architects 1690 births 1751 deaths