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Fleur de lys and calumet : being the Pénicaut narrative of French adventure in Louisiana /
Andre Penicaut, a carpenter, sailed with Iberville to the French province of Louisiana in 1699 and did not return to France until 1721. The book he began in the province and finished upon his return to France is an eyewitness account of the first years of the French colony, which stretched along the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
[1988], ©1981.
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| Colección: | Library Alabama Classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Andre Penicaut, a carpenter, sailed with Iberville to the French province of Louisiana in 1699 and did not return to France until 1721. The book he began in the province and finished upon his return to France is an eyewitness account of the first years of the French colony, which stretched along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas and in the Mississippi Valley from the Balize to the Illinois country. As a ship carpenter, Penicaut was chosen as a member of several important expeditions: he accompanied Le Sueur up the Mississippi River in 1700 to present-day Minnesota, and he went with J. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 281 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817384708 0817384707 |