Jean-Baptiste Bénard of the Toothing-stone (1683 with Saint-Malo - September 26th 1765) is a French explorer credited with discovered Little Rock in the Arkansas. In 1722, Bénard of the Toothing-stone discovers two rock formations on southern bank of the Arkansas, it names smallest the Small Rock and the other the Large Rock . It establishes a Poste for the draft close to the rock small formation because a group of Indian Quapaw lived there. One owes him a work entitled historical Journal of the establishment of the French in Louisiana as well as a new Carte of the part of the west of the Province of Louisia

Works

• historical Newspaper of the establishment of the French in Louisiana ; Jean Bénard Baptist of the Toothing-stone; New-Orleans: With. - L. Boimare, 1831.
• new Chart of the part of the west of the Province of Louisia: on the observations and discovered known Sieur Benard of the Toothing-stone ; Jean Bénard Baptist of the Toothing-stone; Carl I Wheat; Washington: Map Division, Library off Congress, 1913.