Dominique François "Victor" Burthe (1811–1868),[1] was born in Jefferson, Louisiana, to Dominique François Burthe, a native of Metz, France, and Louise Delord-Sarpy (1789–1848), whose father Sylvester Delord-Sarpy's plantation became Tivoli Circle.
His father had purchased the plantation that became known as Burtheville from Bernard de Marigny by an act passed before Felix de Armas, Notary Public, on 3 June 1831 at the price of $38,000.
[2][3] He married Antoinette Estelle Millaudon, daughter of Benjamin Laurent Millaudon.
He was a judge in Jefferson Parish and later served as a Senator in the Louisiana State Senate from Jefferson Parish.
As a judge he ruled on the Joseph Tom v. The Slave Ernest at the Carrollton Courthouse.