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French America : French architecture from colonialization to the birth of a nation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katz, Ron
Corporate Author: French Heritage Society
Other Authors: La Tour d'Auvergne, Arielle de
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : French Heritage Society, 2004.
Subjects:
Architecture, French > United States.
Architecture > United States > French influences.
French > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.