Career
He was educated in France, and served for ten years as a member of the king's household troops. He returned to America and settled on a plantation near New Orleans, where he first planted sugarcane in 1794 and the following year discovered a successful method for manufacturing sugar by granulating the syrup. He thus is credited with being the father of the Louisiana sugar industry. In 1800, when Louisiana was transferred to France, BoréBore was made mayor of New Orleans, serving into the American period.