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| North America:Western Canada explored by the sieur de la Verendrye Pierre Gaultier de Varennes. West Virginia gets its first permanent settlement. Louisiana is once again a royal province with the end of John Law's Company of the East. Benjamin Franklin establishes the first circulating library. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Carlos, the son of Spain's Philip V, succeeds to the throne of the Italian duchies after Spain agrees to the Pragmatic Sanction of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI whose daughter Maria Theresa will be heir to his throne. A reflecting quadrant allows mariners to measure latitude accurately for the first time. France ends the practice of barbers who double as surgeons as it establishes a Royal College of Surgeons. Fiction by Abbe Provost is condemned by authorities. George Frederick Handel. Demand grows in Europe for Porcelain factories. | |||||||||||
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December 1731
December A city plan drawn by Gonichon shows a moat (ditch) has been started around New Orleans. The effort is abandoned by Governor Etienne Perier when trouble with the Indians dies down. A map by L'Herbours shows same as Gonichon' with less detail inside the city, more outside, including the plantation of the Company of the Indies at Algiers Point and the buildings at the Jesuit plantation which Bienville had sold them just upriver. The plantation of the company is granted to Etienne Perier, and later it passes to Chevalier de Pradel. De Pradel builds a splendid plantation house in 1750 that is later purchased by John McDonough, who lives there until his death in 1850. Bienville returns to be governor again and Salmon is Intendant. |
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Louisiana again becomes a crown colony. The Administrative Conseil de Regie is abolished and the Superior Council is reorganized, acquiring administrative and legislative roles. The governor general and the ordonnateur, who supervises the commerce, royal property and the storehouse are at the peak of the command structure. The Superior Council consists of an Intendant, the kings attorney (procureur-general) notary or registrar of the colony and six prominent citizens. It is basically a judicial body although it also reviews executive and legislative business. During the French period, the province of Louisiana is divided into districts, each governed by a commandant who answers to the governor and the council. |
Governor Etienne Etienne Perier orders landowners in the Vicinity of New Orleans to build a levee two feet high and six feet wide along the river that would also serve as a foot and bridal path. |
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