3: Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. Location: eastside of Royal, 1/2 blk. s. of Church.
Text: At twenty-two, he brought to reality the dreams of Louis XIV and LaSalle, and founded on the Mobile River the first capital of French Louisiana. [Also see marker number 21.]

Julian Lee Rayford    sculptor
City of Mobile   1973


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