Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. French Illinois
  • The land
  • The native peoples
  • The settlers
  • The slaves
  • The French settlements
  • The administration: military and civilian
  • The four Forts de Chartres
  • The convoys
  • The end of French Illinois
  • Part II. Commandants of Fort de Chartres
  • First commandment: Pierre-Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriand (1718-24)
  • Second and fifth commandant: Claude-Charles Dutisne (1724-25, 1729-30)
  • Third commandant: Jean-Charles de Pradel (interim 1725)
  • Fourth commandant: Pierre-Charles Desliette (1725-29)
  • Sixth commandant: Robert Groston de St. Ange (1730-33)
  • Seventh commandant: Pierre d'Artaguiette d'Itouralde (1733-36)
  • Eighth commandant: Alphonse de la Buissonniere (1736-40)
  • Ninth and eleventh commandant: Jean-Baptiste Benoist de St. Clair (1740-42, 1749-51)
  • Tenth commandant: Jean-Gaspard de Bertet de la Clue (1742-49)
  • Twelfth commandant: Jean-Jacques de Macarty Mactique (1751-60)
  • Thirteenth commandant: Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villiers (1760-63)
  • Fourteenth and last French commandant: Louis Groston de St. Ange de Bellerive (1764-65)
  • Part III. People of Fort de Chartres
  • Marie Rouensa: the mother of French Illinois
  • Étienne de Veniard de Bourgmont and Ignon Ouaconisen (Françoise Missouri): an Indian in Paris
  • Terrisse de Ternan: a restless and worrisome personality
  • Claude Chetivau: the man who wanted to go to Canada
  • (François- ) Pierre Boucher de Boucherville: escape to Fort de Chartres
  • Alphonse de la Buissonniere and Marie Therese Trudeau: marriage woes
  • Jacques-Sernan Voisin: a hero of the Chickasaw wars?
  • Jean Ducoutray: the chicken thief of Kaskaskia
  • Jean-Bernard Bossu: officer and travel writer
  • Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave: a man of many flags.