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Quimper: Louis de Kerlérec, France's last governor of Louisiana

Louis de Kerlérec, from Quimper, was the last French governor of Louisiana.

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He spent ten years trying to preserve the colony before ceding the territory in 1763.

Imprisoned after this defeat, his role remains a symbol of the end of French presence in America.

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