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The wrecking of La Salle's ship Aimable and the trial of Claude Aigron

Title
The wrecking of La Salle's ship Aimable and the trial of Claude Aigron / by Robert S. Weddle ; translations by François Lagarde.
Author
Weddle, Robert S.
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

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Description
xii, 136 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
Summary
The story of the events surrounding the shipwreck of the l'Aimable, supply ship to Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle's ill-fated French colony founded on the Texas coast in 1685 and the subsequent trial of l'Aimable's captain, Claude Aigron in the French courts.
Series Statement
Charles N. Prothro Texana series
Uniform Title
Charles N. Prothro Texana series
Subject
  • Aigron, Claude > Trials, litigation, etc
  • La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687 > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Aigron, Claude
  • La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
  • La Salle, Robert Cavelier de
  • Aimable (Ship)
  • Geschichte 1685
  • Trials > France > La Rochelle
  • Shipwrecks > Law and legislation > France
  • Liability for marine accidents > France
  • Liability for marine accidents
  • Shipwrecks > Law and legislation
  • Trials
  • Entdeckungsreise
  • France
  • France > La Rochelle
  • Texas
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-127) and index.
Contents
Voyage of destiny -- Makings of disaster -- The parting -- The lost cause -- La Salle's reports -- Charge and rebuttal -- The hearing -- The summation -- The search for Aimable.
ISBN
  • 9780292719408
  • 029271940X
  • 029272358X
  • 9780292723580
LCCN
2008043766
OCLC
  • ocn264667678
  • 264667678
  • SCSB-8925966
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library