Английская Википедия:Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy
Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Cyprien Lefebvre de la Barre, chevalier de Lézy (16 December 1643 – March 1687), or Cyprien Lefèvre, Le Febvre, was governor of the French colony of Cayenne (French Guiana) from 1665 to 1667, and again from 1670 to 1679. During his term of office the colony was raided first by the English and then by the Dutch.
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Cyprien Lefebvre was born on 16 December 1643.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn His father was Antoine Lefebvre (died 1669), sieur de la Barre, a counselor in parliament and provost of the merchants of Paris. His mother was Madeleine Belin.Шаблон:Sfn His eldest brother was Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre (1622–1688), governor of Cayenne from May 1664 to June 1665. In 1665 the French Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert commissioned Antoine Lefebvre de La Barre as the king's governor of the American Mainland. He was later governor of Cayenne for the king from 1668 to 1670 and governor general of New France from 1682 to 1685.Шаблон:Sfn The family dynasty ended with Antoine's son, François Lefebvre de La Barre, who was governor of Cayenne from 1687 until his death in 1691.Шаблон:Sfn
First term of office (1665–67)
Antoine Lefebvre left Cayenne for France in 1665 and obtained the appointment of Cyprien as governor from the newly created Royal West Indies Company (Compagnie Royale des Indes Occidentales).Шаблон:Sfn Cyprien Lefebvre was governor of Cayenne from 1665 to 1668.Шаблон:Sfn He replaced the acting governor Antoine de Noël de la Trompe d'Or, who left office on 8 September 1655.Шаблон:Sfn
On 20 June 1665 Lefebvre ceded a Шаблон:Convert property in Cayenne to Joseph-Fortuné Pignon, vicomte de Quincy. This became the property of the Jesuits in 1668 and their base in the colony.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1666 the English commanded by Captain Peter Wroth visited the colony of Cayenne but did not harm Lefèvre.Шаблон:Sfn Cayenne was looted by the British under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir John Harman in August 1667.Шаблон:Sfn The English destroyed Fort Cépérou and the town of Cayenne.Шаблон:Sfn Lefebvre left on 23 September 1667.Шаблон:Sfn From December 1667 the Jesuit father Jean Morellet was the de facto governor.Шаблон:Sfn After peace was restored in 1668 Lefebvre's brother Joseph-Antoine de La Barre returned, and held office until 1670.Шаблон:Sfn
Second term of office (1670–79)
Cyprien Lefebvre again took charge of Cayenne in 1670, and held office until March 1679.Шаблон:Sfn He was commander from 1670 to 1675, then governor from 1675 to 1679.Шаблон:Sfn On 21 May 1671 he was received as a Knight of Malta and made a lieutenant general.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn He was governor of the French West India Company in 1674, when its possessions were returned to the king.Шаблон:Sfn
In the spring of 1676 the Dutch captain Jacob Binckes was promoted to vice-admiral and dispatched to the West Indies with a fleet of seven men of war and six other ships. He arrived at Cayenne on 4 May 1676 and landed 900 troops near Fort Saint Louis (Fort Cépérou) the next day. Lefebvre soon surrendered. Binckes left shortly after for Marie-Galante and Tobago, leaving a small force to hold Cayenne.Шаблон:Sfn The Dutch commander Binkes controlled the colony from 5 May 1676 to 20 December 1676.Шаблон:Sfn The Dutch left in December, defeated by the Comte Jean II d'Estrées.Шаблон:Sfn In 1679 Lefebvre was replaced as governor by Pierre-Eléonore de La Ville, marquis de Férolles.Шаблон:Sfn Cyprien Lefebvre died in Malta in March 1687.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn
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