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The Buffalo-Lille Association Inc. will hold a special meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 28, in Butler Library 210, following the official unveiling of the Louis Stephen Le Couteulx Way at 3:00 p.m. at the corner of Pearl and Edward Streets in Buffalo. All Francophone and Francophile organizations from the Western New York area are invited to join in this significant historical gathering to hear more about Louis Stephen Le Couteulx de Caumont, who arrived in our area in 1803. He was from a French ennobled family from Normandy who became associated with the Holland Land Company and acquired various plots of land. In 1829, Mr. Le Couteulx de Caumont showed his desire to actively participate in the development of Buffalo. At that time, there were about 800 Catholics in the area, but they had no permanent place of worship. Due to his grant of land for this purpose, St. Louis Church, the first Catholic Church was built along with other buildings. The meeting at 8:00 p.m. will see experts, including the executive director of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, make presentations on this prominent Franco-American figure.