New Bourbon, Missouri
| New Bourbon, Missouri | |
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| Abandoned village | |
 Location of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri |
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| Coordinates: 37°56′59″N 90°01′15″W / 37.94972°N 90.02083°WCoordinates: 37°56′59″N 90°01′15″W / 37.94972°N 90.02083°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Ste. Genevieve |
| Township | Ste. Genevieve |
| Elevation | 433 ft (132 m) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 63670 |
| Area code(s) | 573 |
| FIPS code | 29-51705 |
| GNIS feature ID | 741096 |
New Bourbon (French: Nouvelle Bourbon) is an abandoned village located in Ste. Genevieve Township in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. New Bourbon is located about two and a half miles south of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
New Bourbon, originally called Nouvelle Bourbon, was named in honor of the sovereign of Spain, Charles IV (1788-1819), of the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon and would memorialize the executed Bourbon king of France, Louis XVI.
The village of Nouvelle Bourbon was established in 1793 by order of Baron Carondelet, Governor of the colony of Upper Louisiana "to put the new settlement under the special protection of the august sovereign who governs Spain, and also that the descendants of the new colonists may imitate the fidelity and firmness of their of their fathers toward their king." The sovereign who reigned over Spain, and thus Upper Louisiana, in 1793 was Charles IV, House of Bourbon.
The purpose of the settlement was to establish a number of French royalist families who had settled at Gallipolis in southeastern Ohio, but had become dissatisfied there. Pierre de Hault de Lassus de Luzière, belonging to a rich landed aristocracy in Hainault in Flanders, was appointed the first civil and military commandant when he arrived there in August, 1793. The village was originally known as the "Village des Petites Cotes" (French: village of little hills or slopes), because of the bluffs rolled back from the river rather than rising abruptly from it. Later the English form of Nouvelle Bourbon, New Bourbon, was used.
New Bourbon also became home to French nobility who had fled France following the French Revolution. Among the distinguished residents was Jean Rene Guiho, lord of Klegand, a native of Nantes, Brittany. He was invited by Chevalier de Luzière to take up his residence in the village, and was given a grant of 500 arpents on the Saline river.
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