Ignace François Broutin

Ignace François Broutin (La Bassée, 1690[1]–1751) was a French Chevalier of the Order of St. Louis military officer, commander of Fort Rosalie among the Natchez people, and later an architect and Captain of Engineers of the King in the Province [2] in colonial Louisiana.

[3] He is chiefly remembered for designing the Ursuline Convent, completed by 1753 and the oldest and only surviving French colonial building in New Orleans.

[5] Their son, Ignace de Lino, reportedly died suddenly, a month later, devastated by the extensive damage to his inherited family mansion during the Battle.

La Ronde's mansion was, first, the main site of the definitive Night Battle, December 23–24, 1814, in which General Edward Pakenham lost his life.

At least two descendants reflected his architectural legacy: grandson Colonel Denis de La Ronde (1762–1824), whose stately "house was similar in plan and exterior to the Ursuline Convent designed by Broutin"[6] (albeit now widely misnamed as Versailles, Louisiana), today an historic ruins;[7] and his niece, the tragic, yet highly creative survivor of the murderous Baron Joseph Delfau de Pontalba's final attempt to steal her fortune.

Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans , 1733
The Wolf River's watershed (everything above the red dotted line), as surveyed in 1740 by Ignace Francois Broutin, chief engineer of French Louisiana . The French had named the Wolf "Riviere a Margot"
A postcard of the ruins of Fort Rosalie , 1907