Pierre Belain d' Esnambuc , third child of Nicolas Blain, Sieur de Quenouville and of Esnambuc, was baptized in the church Saint Quentin of Allouville-Bellefosse, the Seine Maritime, Normandy, the March 9th 1585. It is a Flibustier Normand.

Adventurer who, launched at the continuation of a Spanish galleon, managed from there to take possession of Saint-Christophe in 1625, Pierre Belain d' Esnambuc developed so well this island which it accepted from Richelieu the privilege to colonize those which would not be occupied by the Christians with the Compagnie of the islands of Saint-Christophe that it founded in 1625 and which became in 1635 the Compagnie of the islands of America . Also it of occupied 1625 with 1635 the Martinique, the Guadeloupe, Saint-Christophe and Marie-Gallant. It returned in 1635 to Saint-Christophe where it died in 1636. It made occupy the Guadeloupe by its nephew Jacques Dyel of the Parquet floor (1606 - January 3rd 1658) which founded Extremely-Royal Saint-Pierre and .

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• Biography of Belain d' Esnambuc

References

• Theodore Baude, D' Esnambuc; or, Slow repair of an unjust lapse of memory , Fort-de-France, Impr. government, 1942
• Lénis White, History of the Guadeloupe , Paris, Mr. Lavergne, 1938
• Rene Dreux-Brézé, the Epopee of the Antilles: life of Pierre Belain d' Esnambuc, Norman gentleman (1585-1646) , Paris, Bookstore of the Arc, 1937
• Auguste Joyau, Belain d' Esnambuc , Paris, Bellenand, 1950
• Rene Maran, Pioneers of the empire , Paris, Albin Michel, 1943-1955
• Pierre Margry, transatlantic Origins. Belain d' Esnambuc and the Norman ones in the Antilles, according to lately found documents , Paris, A. Faure, 1863