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French ship Bergère

18th-century French ship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ11676725 ↗
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Bergère (French feminine form of 'shepherd') was a 300-ton ship. On May 14, 1785, it transported 273 Acadians and 5 French from Nantes, France, to New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving August 15, 1785.

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This entry incorporates text from “French ship Bergère” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.