Nicolas Chauvin de La Frénière, the younger, (died 26 October 1769) was a son of Nicolas Chauvin, Sieur de La Frenière, the elder, who was born 1675 in Montréal, and died in 1748 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
The rebellion succeeded in driving Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana out of New Orleans.
However the ringleaders, including de La Frénière, were later arrested and subsequently executed on 26 October 1769 by firing squad.
Those who could not leave went into their houses, closed the doors and windows and waited in an agony of sickening dread to hear the fatal shots.
A volley of muskets broke out on the still air, and five patriots went to their death, — the first Louisianians to give their blood for the cause of freedom.Lafreniere Park is named in his memory.