- Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 236 p.) : ill., ports., maps.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- French aristocrat in the American West (Online)
- Alternative Title
- French aristocrat in the American West (Online)
- Shattered dreams of De Lassus de Luzières
- Subject
- Note
- "Source documents" (p. [115] - 225) contains 36 items given here in English translations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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 Luzières to Carondelet, April 30, 1793 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, May 1, 1793 ; Peyroux de la Coudrenière to Carondelet, November 4, 1793 ; Edmund Genêt, Harangue to the free French, 1793 ; De Luzières 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 Luzières to Carondelet, April 6, 1794 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, September 17, 1794 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, October 17, 1794 ; Bartholémé Tardiveau to Carondelet, November 27, 1794 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, June 9, 1795 ; De Luzières to Gayoso de Lemos, November 20, 1795 ; De Lassus to Gayoso de Lemos, December 3, 1795 ; Louis Lorimier to Carondelet, December 22, 1795 ; De Luzières, An official account of Louisiana, 1796 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, August 1, 1796 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, September 19, 1796 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, October 17, 1796 ; François Vallé to Carondelet, November 10, 1796 ; De Luzières to Bartholémé Tardiveau, February 2, 1797 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, June 12, 1797 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, September 21, 1797 ; De Luzières, passport for Neptune and Jasmin, free blacks, September 27, 1797 ; De Luzières to Carondelet, October 1, 1797 ; De Luzières, New Bourbon census, December 1, 1797 ; De Luzières, Indians of various tribes ; De Luzières, Observations on the white residents, December 1, 1797 ; De Luzières to Gayoso de Lemos, December 20, 1797 ; De Luzières to Governor Gayoso de Lemos, March 19, 1798 ; Slave purchase, February 2, 1799 ; De Luzières, 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 Luzières to de Lassus, April 10, 1804.
- LCCN
- 2012450192
- OCLC
- ssj0000645856
- Author
Ekberg, Carl J.
- Title
A French aristocrat in the American West [electronic resource] : the shattered dreams of De Lassus de Luzières / Carl J. Ekberg ; with a foreword by Marie-Sol de La Tour d'Auvergne.
- Imprint
Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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