Broussard House (Maison Broussard)

Armand Broussard's father, Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, was born in 1702 and led Acadian resistance after the 1755 expulsion. From 1755 to 1758 he led raids with Boishébert's forces, and in 1758 he armed a ship and attacked British settlements on the upper Bay of Fundy. Imprisoned at Fort Edward in 1762 and moved to Halifax, he was freed in 1764 and led his group by way of Saint-Domingue to Louisiana. On April 8, 1765, about six weeks after reaching Louisiana, he became militia captain of the Attakapas Acadians.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — steps away
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 5.6 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 12 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 12 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Attakapas Chapel (Chapelle des Attakapas) — steps away
• Acadian House (Maison Acadienne) — steps away
• Mouton Kitchen (La Cuisine de Maison Mouton) — steps away
• Trappers Cabin & Boat Shed — steps away