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A French Aristocrat in the American West : The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzières /
Biography of Frenchman who escaped the French Revolution, came to America, and founded the town of New Bourbon, leaving behind extensive commentaries on the Missouri frontier at the close of the colonial era.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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London :
University of Missouri Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Marie-Sol de La Tour d'Auvergne
- From France to the Mississippi Valley. Flight from France ; The Ohio River Valley ; The grand enterprise ; At home in the Illinois country ; The grand enterprise collapses ; Americans recruited ; Civil and Military commandant ; End of the adventure
- Source Documents. De Luzieres to Carondelet, April 30, 1793 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, May 1, 1793 ; Peyroux de la Coudreniere to Carondelet, November 4, 1793 ; Edmund Genêt, Harangue to the free French, 1793 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, December 26, 1793 ; Account of the Ohio River, winter 1793-1794 ; Trudeau to Carondelet, January 28, 1794 ; Louis Lorimier, Harangue to indians, February 8, 1794 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, April 6, 1794 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, September 17, 1794 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, October 17, 1794 ; Bartholeme Tardiveau to Carondelet, November 27, 1794 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, June 9, 1795 ; De Luzieres to Gayoso de Lemos, November 20, 1795 ; De Lassus to Gayoso de Lemos, December 3, 1795 ; Louis Lorimier to Carondelet, December 22, 1795 ; De Luzieres, An official account of Louisiana, 1796 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, August 1, 1796 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, September 19, 1796 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, October 17, 1796 ; François Valle to Carondelet, November 10, 1796 ; De Luzieres to Bartholeme Tardiveau, February 2, 1797 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, June 12, 1797 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, September 21, 1797 ; De Luzieres, passport for Neptune and Jasmin, free blacks, September 27, 1797 ; De Luzieres to Carondelet, October 1, 1797 ; De Luzieres, New Bourbon census, December 1, 1797 ; De Luzieres, Indians of various tribes ; De Luzieres, Observations on the white residents, December 1, 1797 ; De Luzieres to Gayoso de Lemos, December 20, 1797 ; De Luzieres to Governor Gayoso de Lemos, March 19, 1798 ; Slave purchase, February 2, 1799 ; De Luzieres, Memorial to U.S. Congress, March 29, 1799 ; John Matthews, oath of loyalty to Spain, October 17, 1800 ; John Matthews, real estate concession, October 20, 1800 ; De Luzieres to de Lassus, April 10, 1804.