Leblanc
also Le Blanc, LeBlanc
'The white', and the most Acadian name of all.
- Origin
- French
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- French family
The seat of Leblanc
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Leblanc community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Leblanc has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
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Help rebuild the Leblanc clan →What does the Leblanc name mean?
A nickname, le blanc, 'the white', for a man fair of hair or complexion. Common across France, it became above all the great surname of Acadia.
The history of Leblanc
Leblanc marked the fair man, but its deepest story is Acadian. Daniel LeBlanc, a settler at Port-Royal around 1650, founded a line that became the most numerous family of Acadia, the French colony on the Bay of Fundy.
When the British expelled the Acadians in 1755, Le Grand Dérangement, which scattered them down the seaboard and into Louisiana. The LeBlancs were carried with them, and the name became a pillar of the Cajun country, the family of Longfellow's exiled Évangéline. To carry Leblanc in Louisiana or the Maritimes is to carry that expulsion in the name.
The castles of the homeland
The great strongholds of the homeland, look one up, see what it looked like in its prime, and recreate it to explore.
BastilleDemolished · prime 1380
Guédelon CastleRestored · prime 1250
Château de VincennesRestored · prime 1660All castles in France → · Strongest castles in France → · Castles of Europe
Play As Your Clan
Hold a real castle against whatever you choose to send at it, take a ship out in her own service years, or stand at the shoulder of someone the record remembers. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.