Jean-Louis Le Loutre | |
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 Vicar general Le Loutre | |
| Born | September 26, 1709 Morlaix, France |
| Died | September 30, 1772 (age 63) Nantes, France |
| Allegiance |  France |
| Service | French missionary |
| Rank | Vicar General of Acadia |
| Battles / wars | King George's War |
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Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre (French: [ʒɑ̃lwi ləlutʁ]; 26 September 1709 – 30 September 1772) was a Catholic priest and missionary for the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Le Loutre became the leader of the French forces and the Acadian and Mi'kmaq militias during King George's War and Father Le Loutre's War in the eighteenth-century struggle for power between the French, Acadians, and Miꞌkmaq against the British over Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick).