Marcel Giraud: 3 books
A History of French Louisiana
The Company of the Indies, 1723–1731
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
The first four volumes of Marcel Giraud's History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France's establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. In this fifth and final volume of Giraud's magnum opus, published...
A History of French Louisiana
The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698--1715
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993
The death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the accession of his more progressive younger brother as Regent of France might have brought some hopeful changes to Louisiana, France's tiny, struggling outpost on the Gulf of Mexico. However, the continuation of the debilitating regime of the merchant Antoine Crozat...
A History of French Louisiana
The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698--1715
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1974
Marcel Giraud has long been acknowledged as the leading European scholar in the filed of the history and development of colonial French Louisiana. Now the long-awaited English translation of Volume One of his Histoire de la Louisiana Française makes the results of his meticulous research readily...