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Abbeville is a city in, and the parish seat of, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States, 150 miles (240 km) west of New Orleans and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Baton Rouge. The population was 12,257 at the 2010 census. At the 2020 population estimates program, the population of the city was 11,927. Abbeville is the principal city of the Abbeville micropolitan statistical area, which includes everything of Vermilion Parish. It is also portion of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area and the larger Lafayette–Acadiana combined statistical area.

Formerly called La Chapelle, the estate that became Abbeville was purchased by founding daddy Père Antoine Désiré Mégret (Père is French for ‘Father’), a Capuchin missionary upon July 25, 1843 for $900. There are two theories how the town was named. The theory that is generally trendy is Mégret named the town after his home in France. The second theory which along with cannot be discounted states that it is a engagement of “Abbe” for Abbé Mégret and “ville” the French word for town – thus Abbé’s town. Some preserve for the second theory is found because the town in France is pronounced “Abbville” by its denizens. However, in 1995, Fr. Jean Desobry discovered the diocesan records of Amiens the proof of Mégret’s birthplace. In the archive, the dossier of Fr. Antoine Jacques Désiré Mégret was found, and that he was born on May 23, 1797, at Abbeville and became founder of Abbeville in Louisiana. Dr Mary-Theresa MacCarthy wrote in her article Un Autre Abbeville in the 1996 edition of Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie (translation by Father Herbert),

Settlers were primarily descendants of the Acadians from Nova Scotia that moved to the Place around 1766 to 1775. The town was incorporated in 1850.
There were two people living upon the land at the time, Joseph LeBlanc and his wife Isabelle Broussard, whose former home Father Megret converted into a chapel. The chapel burned in 1854, and in 1910 St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, Rectory were built, its and cemetery established, and still stand today.