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French architecture from colonialization to the birth of a nation
223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Foreword / by Arnaud d'Hauterives. -- Introduction / by Carl J. Ekberg. -- Map of the Mississippi region. -- Speaking French / by Roger G. Kennedy. -- The earl coast settlements. -- The pathfinders: Samuel Champlain. -- French military architecture: Vauban and the American forts. -- The early Huguenot settlements. -- The journey of the Huguenots. -- New Paltz. -- New Rochelle. -- Staten Island. -- Charleston. -- Early French outposts: the upper and middle Mississippi Valley. -- Michigan. -- The pathfinders: Jacques Marquette. -- Colonial Michilimackinac. -- Wisconsin. -- The king and the councillor: Louis XIV and Colbert. -- Prairie du Chien and Green Bay. -- Illinois. -- The pathfinders: Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. -- Peoria and Fort Crèvecoeur. -- Starved Rock. -- Cahokia. -- Kaskaskia. -- Prairie du Rocher. -- Fort de Chartres. -- Missouri. -- Florissant. -- St. Louis. -- French Colonial architecture and its origins / by James Baker. -- Ste. Genevieve. -- The art of preservation carpentry / by Jesse Francis. -- Restoring the Green Tree: a personal history / by Hilliard Goldman. -- Taking root: the lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast. -- Arkansas. -- Arkansas Post. -- Texas. -- La Belle and Fort St. Louis. -- San Antonio. -- Mississippi. -- Biloxi. -- Pascagoula. -- Natchez. -- Alabama. -- Mobile. -- Fort Toulouse. -- Louisiana. -- Natchitoches and the Cane River plantations. -- The River Road and False River plantations. -- Grand Coteau. -- Lafayette. -- The formation of the Cajun people / by Daniel B. Baker. -- St. Martinville. -- Breaux Bridge. -- Baton Rouge. -- New Orleans. -- Continental struggles in colonial America: the Seven Years War and the American Revolution: Fort Necessity. -- Fort Ticonderoga. -- Rochambeau: another founding father. -- Rhode Island. -- Newport. -- Massachusetts. -- Boston. -- Virginia. -- Lafayette: enthusiast for America. -- Yorktown. -- A noble cause: the French aristocracy and the American Revolution. -- Pennsylvania. -- Benjamin Franklin and the French. -- Philadelphia. -- Eastern civic and urban architecture. -- Cherchez les franc̦ais / by Roger Kennedy. -- French inspiration in the plan of the nation's capital / by Iris Miller. -- Jefferson, Monticello and "l'ésprit franc̦ais" -- A living heritage - French Heritage Society. -- Appendices: Some important dates in the history of French America ; Glossary.
text by Ron Katz, photographs by Arielle de La Tour d'Auvergne.
Includes bibliographical references (page 223).