Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville founded the colony of Louisiana & was the first European to see this lake
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Salle had failed to find on his last expedition, and ... Having achieved his first aim 
and finding no good sites in the delta, ... His brother Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de 
Bienville founded New Orleans in 1718.