A collection of the best schalorly material on the French colonial experience in Louisiana.

Beginning with pioneers like N. M. Miller Surrey, Marcel Giraud, and Charles O'Neill, French colonial historians of the last third of the twentieth century have produced a new historiography. This volume is designed to bring before interested readers this fresh, sometimes revealing, but always thoughtful scholarship.

This volume incorporates the very best of the new scholarship on French Louisiana. The volume's component articles are grouped into sections entitled French Colonial Policy and Louisiana; Europeanization of French Louisiana; Africans, Slaves, Slavery, and Manumissions; The French and Native Americans; Soldiers, Fortifications, and Mercenaries; Administration of French Louisiana; French Law, Religion, and Morality; Louisiana's Nascent Economy; and The End of French Louisiana.

It is to be hoped that the reader will come away from this volume with a better understanding of the complexities of the French experience in Louisiana and a better appreciation of the contribution of scholars who, employing ever-evolving historical methodology, have set firmly the French building block in the structure of our state's heritage.

CONTENTS

PART I FRENCH COLONIAL POLICY AND LOUISIANA

Colbertand the Colonies
by Mathé Allain

Colbert's Policy Crumbles: La Salle's Voyages
by Mathé Allain

The Image of La Salle in North American Historiography
by Carl A. Brasseaux

The Official Initiative
by Marcel Giraud

The Religious Initiative
by Marcel Giraud

Jerome Phelypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, and the Establishment of
Louisiana, 1696-1715
by John C. Rule

In Search of a Policy
by Mathé Allain

PART II EUROPEANIZATION OF FRENCH LOUISIANA

French Emigration Policies: Louisiana, 1699-1715.
by Mathé Allain

The Transportation of Convicts to Colonial Louisiana
by James D. Hardy, Jr.

Emigration Forcée: A French Attempt to Populate Louisiana, 1716-1720.
by Glenn R. Conrad

German Emigration
by Marcel Giraud

The Myth of John Law's German Colony on the Arkansas.
by Morris S. Arnold

The Image of Louisiana and the Failure of Voluntary French Emigration, 1683-1731
by Carl A. Brasseaux

Alsatian Emigration to Louisiana, 1753-1759
by Glenn R. Conrad

PART III AFRICANS, SLAVES, SLAVERY, AND MANUMISSIONS

Slave Policies in French Louisiana
by Mathé Allain

From African Captivity to American Slavery: The Introduction of
Black Laborers to Colonial Louisiana
by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.

Slavery and Agriculture in Louisiana: 1699-1731
by Grady W. Kilman

The Administration of Slave Regulations in French Louisiana, 1724-1766
by Carl A. Brasseaux

Free Persons of Color in Colonial Louisiana
by Donald E. Everett

PART IV THE FRENCH AND NATIVE AMERICANS

The Indians of Louisiana, About 1700-Their Customs and Manner of Living
by Paul A. Kunkel

Henri de Tonti's Mission to the Chickasaw, 1702
by Jay Higginbotham

The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731
by Patricia D. Woods

War or Peace? Louisiana, the Choctaws, and the Chickasaws, 1733-1735
by Michael J. Foret

The Failure of Administration: The Chickasaw Campaign of 1739-40
by Michael J. Foret

Louisiana Post Letters: The Missing Evidence for Indian Diplomacy
by Patricia K. Galloway

Franco-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley, 1754-1763: Prelude to
Pontiac's Uprising?
by Carl A. Brasseaux and Michael J. LeBlanc

PART V SOLDIERS, FORTIFICATIONS, AND MERCENARIES

The Military Organization of French Colonial Louisiana
by David Hardcastle

The Problems of Founding a Viable Colony: The Military in Early French
Louisiana
by Susan Gibbs Lemann

Swiss Mercenary Soldiers in the Service of France in Louisiana
by David Hardcastle

Colonial Fortifications and Military Architecture in the Mississippi Valley
by Samuel Wilson, Jr.

PART VI ADMINISTRATION OF FRENCH LOUISIANA

Some Legal and Practical Aspects of the Office of Commissaire-Ordonnateur
of French Louisiana
by Donald J. Lemieux

From Law Court to Local Government: Metamorphosis of the Superior Council of French Louisiana
by Jerry A. Micelle

Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose: Premier Acte.
Cadillac and Duclos
by Mathé Allain

Confusion, Conflict, & Currency: An Introduction to the Rebellion of 1768?
by Carl A. Brasseaux

Administration of the Illinois Country: The French Debate
by Glenn R. Conrad

PART VII FRENCH LAW, RELIGION, AND MORALITY

La Coutume de Paris: Louisiana's First Law
by Jerah Johnson

Le Mari Est Seigneur: Marital Laws Governing Women in French
Louisiana
by Vaughan Baker, Amos Simpson and Mathé Allain

Cherchez les Femmes: Some Glimpses of Women in Early Eighteenth-Century Louisiana
by Vaughan B. Baker

The Christianization of French Colonial Louisiana: A General View of Church and State in the Context of Eighteenth-Century French Colonization and a Theory of Mission
by Mary Veronica Miceli

The Lines Cross
by Charles Edwards O'Neill

The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1763
by Carl A. Brasseaux

PART VIII LOUISIANA'S NASCENT ECONOMY

The Development of Industries in Louisiana During the French Regime,
1673-1763
by N. M. Miller Surrey

New Orleans: Its First Century of Economic Development
by John G. Clark

The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the
Eighteenth Century
by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.

The Chaumont Concession: A French Plantation on the Pascagoula
by Jay Higginbotham

The Cypress Lumber Industry of the Lower Mississippi Valley During
the Colonial Period
by John Hebron Moore

PART IX THE END OF FRENCH LOUISIANA

Plus Ça Change: Acte Second: The Aubry-Foucault Clash and the
New Orleans Rebellion of 1768
by Carl A. Brasseaux

Old and New Interpretations of the Rebellion of 1768
by Jo Ann Carrigan

Some Eighteenth-Century French Views on Louisiana
by Pierre H. Boulle

Reluctant Imperialist: France in North America
by Glenn R. Conrad

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