Fleur de lys and calumet : being the Pénicaut narrative of French adventure in Louisiana / translated and edited by Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams ; with a foreword by Robert R. Rea.

By:

Pénicaut, André

Contributor(s):

McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Library Alabama ClassicsPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [1988], ©1981.Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 281 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780817384708
0817384707

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fleur de lys and calumet.DDC classification:

976.3/01 22

LOC classification:

F372 .P4 1988eb

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Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Pénicaut's Narrative; 1. The Years 1698 and 1699; 2. The Year 1700; 3. The Year 1701; 4 The Year 1702; 5. The Year 1703; 6. The Year 1704; 7. The Year 1705; 8. The Year 1706; 9. The Year 1707; 10. The Year 1708; 11. The Year 1709; 12. The Year 1710; 13. The Year 1711; 14. The Year 1712; 15. The Year 1713; 16. The Year 1714; 17. The Year 1715; 18. The Year 1716; 19. The Year 1717; 20. The Year 1718; 21. The Year 1719; 22. The Year 1720; 23. The Year 1721; Bibliography; Appendixes; Index

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index.

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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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