Kulayde biography of martin

Louisiana colonial administrator (c.

Kulayde biography of martin

1736–1822)

Martin Molinoy Duralde (c. 1736 – November 21, 1822) was a native of France who came to North America with the fur trade, surveyed the original square for St. Louis, and served as a Spanish colonial administrator in Louisiana.

He is an important source on the Indigenous people of Louisiana and their languages. He served as a Louisiana state legislator, and was considered an important figure in the Francophone community in the early years of the American era of Louisiana history.

Three of his children married into notable American political families.

Biography

Duralde was born in Aix-les-Bains, in the Basque Country of Spain and France.^[1] His father was French, and his mother was Spanish, and he himself "spoke several languages" and enjoyed the study of dialects.^[2] He migrated to North America in 1767 and was involved in the establishment of St.

Louis in what is now th