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Bertrand D'Ogeron
Bertrand d'Ogeron de La Bouëre (19 March 1613 - 31 January 1676) was an officer and Colonial Administrator of France in the 17th century. He was appointed Viceroy#Other viceroyalties, Viceroy of France to Tortuga (Haiti), Tortuga by King Louis XIV between June 1665 and 1668, then from 1669 to 1675. Biography Bertrand d'Ogeron was born on the 19 March 1613 at Rochefort-sur-Loire. In 1641 he was promoted to the rank of Captain of the Marine Regiment (France), Marine Regiment, and fought during the Reapers' War, War in Catalonia between 1646 and 1649. With the death of his father in 1653, Bertrand d'Ogeron succeeded him as Lord of La Bouëre, and lived in Angers until 1655. He arrived in Martinique in the September of 1657. He lived as a buccaneer in the north-west of Saint-Domingue, at Petit-Goâve. He was at one point also a planter of tobacco at Léogâne and Port-Margot. In 1665 he was appointed Viceroy to Tortuga. He contributed significantly to the population and settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
