| 1725 |
Etienne Perier becomes French Louisiana's governor when Bienville is recalled to France. During his administration Perier welcomes the Jesuits, the Ursuline nuns and the Casquette girls to the struggling settlement. He is offered a rich tract of the river front and eight slaves a year as long as he is governor. He builds the first levee, more than a mile long and 18 feet wide at the summit. He also respondes to a Natchez Indian uprising by burning to death four men and two women prisoners. |
| 1733 |
Governor Perier organizes an expedition against the Natchez Indians near Vacherie at the Bayougoula village. The vagaries of governor Perier's administration have led to the Natchez Massacre of 1729, and this will necessitate Bienville's return. Perier loses his land and the governorship and the Company of the Indies gives up on Louisiana and returns the trade monopoly to the crown. |