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154:, but history works and library catalogs have preserved the "Jean." The name "de Montigny" was not used by most other members of his family. At least one scholar has asserted that Dumont assumed it as a false title of nobility when living in Louisiana. But scholars have found that a niece is documented as using the same surname.
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were generally welcoming of the French, although skirmishes in 1722–23 showed the tensions of competition for land and food. Dumont wrote that the commandant appointed for the fort in 1727, de Chépart, was a tyrant who mistreated soldiers and claimed
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299:. He married the widow Roussin. There, and later on another property within New Orleans, he supported himself as a market gardener. But he returned to a soldier's life as a member of the civilian militia during the
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Ethnohistory Revisited: New Manuscript Sources by Le Page du Pratz and Dumont de Montigny." Louisiana History 50:4 (Fall 2009): 407–436.
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