Louis de Pastour de Costebelle

Louis de Pastour de Costebelle (1658 – 2 March 1732) was a French naval officer who served as interim governor of Plaisance (Placentia), Newfoundland, before the arrival of Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan in 1690. Costebelle came to Newfoundland as head of a detachment of soldiers in 1687.

His brother Philippe Pastour de Costebelle was the governor of Plaisance from 1706 to 1713.

See also

  • Biography at Government House The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Salagnac, Georges Cerbelaud (1979) [1969]. "Pastour de Costebelle, Philippe". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.


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