Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley

by John Francis McDermott

A study of Frenchmen and French Ways in the Mississippi Valley

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1969

About the author

1902-

Reviews

[Pierre Normand · Rating 5 out of 5]

Contents include articles on Auguste Choteau; Eighteenth-century French Views on Louisiana; Joseph Nicolas Nicolet; Louis William Valentine Du Bourg (Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas); Fort Massac; A Memoir of Spanish Louisiana; The Superior Council in Colonial Louisiana; Dauphin Island in the Franco-Spanish War; Iberville at the Birdfoot Subdelta; Ste. Genevieve, Missouri; Jerome Phelypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain; Francois Saucier, Engineer of Fort de Chartres, Illinois; and Ignace Francois Broutin. Includes an index. This is an excellent collection of articles about the Mississippi Valley when it was thoroughly French.