Jean Baptiste Fontaine, né Le Sueur (Paris, France 1745 – New Orleans, 5 July 1814), was a French actor and theatre director.
[1] He was director of the theatre Comédie du Cap in Cap-Francais and an actor and newspaper editor in New Orleans.
In June 1793, he was one of the 10.000. refugees evacuated from Cap-Francais on American ships during the Great Fire and Pillage of Cap-Français.
During the incident, most of the city was burnt and the white population took refuge in the ships of the harbour, and eyewitnesses describes scenes in which the rebels put on the costume from the Comédie du Cap.
[2] In 1795, he was invited to New Orleans in Louisiana to be the director of the Theatre de la Rue Saint Pierre, where he became an actor.