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Pierre-Clément de Laussat (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ klemɑ̃ də losa]; 23 November 1756 – 10 April 1835) was a French politician, and the 24th Colonial Governor of Louisiana, the last under French rule.
Dec 19, 2016 · Pierre Clément de Laussat presided as the highest French civilian official in Louisiana for a short but crucial period in 1803.
- Greater New Orleans, Orleans
Pierre-Clément de Laussat était, depuis 1784, receveur général des finances des pays d'état de l'intendance de Pau et Bayonne lorsque survint la Révolution. Emprisonné pendant la Terreur, il fut bientôt libéré et devint payeur-général à l'armée des Pyrénées.
Pierre Clément De Laussat, 1803 New Orleans, and the Bonapartist Louisiana That Never Was By EBERHARD L. FABER* Mention the spring of 1803 to a Louisiana historian and one thing typically comes to mind: negotiations in Paris, where American diplomats Robert Livingston and James Monroe famously succeeded in buying the vast Louisiana colony from
Portrait of Pierre Clément Laussat, who served as the French colonial prefect of Louisiana during the period in late 1803 and early 1804 when Spain returned the colony to French possession and the United States assumed ownership of the territory through the Louisiana Purchase.
Pierre-Clément de Laussat was a French politician, and the 24th Colonial Governor of Louisiana, the last under French rule. He later served as colonial official in Martinique and French Guiana, as well as an administrator in France and Antwerp.
Oct 23, 2021 · A Guide to the papers of Pierre Clément Laussat, Napoleon's prefect for the colony of Louisiana and of General Claude Perrin Victor at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Publication date.
