Jean of Plessis d\' Ossonville

Jean of Plessis d' Ossonville (? - December 4th, 1635) is a Norman gentilshomme and faithful lieutenant of Pierre Belain d' Esnambuc. It brilliantly illustrated during the conquest of Saint Christophe (current the Saint-Kitts) then capital of the all news French West Indies.

Elected by the Company of the islands of America to colonize one of the islands Guadeloupe, the Dominique or the Martinique as a Governor assistant with Charles Liènard of the Olive.

May 25th 1635: of the Olive and Duplessis leave Dieppe, on two ships, for the Antilles, taking along with them the Dominican Pères Pierre Pélican, Raymond Breton, Nicolas Bréchet and Pierre Gryphon, charged with évangéliser the the Caribbean.
on June 28th, 1635, they accost side of Point-Lively (near to current the Holy-Rose (Guadeloupe)) and unload with and 400 colonists engaged by contract for three years.

In spite of the positive ratios which they maintained at the beginning with the Caribbean a war baited against they very quickly will settle. The systematic extermination of the indigenous population was undoubtedly undertaken because of Lienard of the Olive , particularly brutal, authoritative and without scruple whereas Duplessis was rather presented like a honest man.

He lived only a few months on the island, death took it on December 4th of the same year.

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