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Louis de Pastour de Costebelle

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Louis de Pastour de Costebelle (ca. 1658 – unknown) naval officer 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.

Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, a brother of Louis, 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.
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Plaisance
1690–1691
Succeeded by