Government, Politics & Law
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Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny
Dumont de Montigny is best remembered for writing a colorful, suspenseful, and often humorous memoir about his experience as an officer, farmer, and explorer in eighteenth-century French colonial Louisiana.