Céloron de Blainville

Céloron de Blainville is a French family of officers and colonial administrators, who notably played a role in New France beginning in the 17th century.

Persons

Famous Céloron de Blainville family are :

• Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Blainville (born 1660 in Paris (France), still living in 1730), "seigneur" of Blainville, Quebec in New France.^[1] He married Hélène Picoté de Belestre, daughter of a military commander of Montreal.
• his son Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville (1693–1759), leader of the 1749 Ohio expedition.
• Paul Louis Maxime Celoron de Blainville (1831–1889), gouvernor of Mayotte in 1887-1888^[2]

Attention

The way of writing Céloron de Blainville is often wrong especially in modern documents :

• "Céloron" (or often Celoron in texts in English) is often miswritten "Celeron" ou "Céleron", because of confusion with the Intel Celeron chipset of 2002.
• "Blainville" is often miswritten "Bienville", because of confusion with the name of the New France hero Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• So the writing "Celeron de Bienville" is common on the Internet but wrong.

Places

From the family Céloron de Blainville, came :

• Celoron, New York, a village in New York state, USA.
• Boulevard Céloron, in Blainville, Quebec, Canada.
• Blainville, Quebec, a city in Quebec.
• Blainville (electoral district) in Quebec.

References

1. Ville de Blainville
2. States and regents of the world, an alphabetical listing notamment sur woldstatesmen.org , rulers.org et autres sites