Ren?Goulaine de Laudonni鋨e (c. 1529 - 1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline, located in present-day Jacksonville, Florida. Laudonni鋨e was a Huguenot nobleman and merchant mariner from Poitou, France. His birthdate and family origins are unknown. One school of historians attaches him to a branch of the Goulaine family seated at Laudonni鋨e, near Nantes. A competing claim insists that he was a Burdigale (or Bourdigalle) from the port town of Sables d'Olonne. 固opFoto