Book/Printed Material Historical Memoirs on Louisiana, Including the Most Interesting Events from 1687 to the Present. Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane : contenant ce qui y est arrivé de plus mémorable depuis l'année 1687 jusqu'à présent : avec l'établissement de la colonie françoise dans cette province de l'Amérique septentrionale sous la direction de la Compagnie des Indes : le climat, la nature & les productions de ce pays, l'origine & la religion des sauvages qui l'habitent, leurs moeurs & leurs coutumes

Title

• Historical Memoirs on Louisiana, Including the Most Interesting Events from 1687 to the Present.

Other Title

• Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane : contenant ce qui y est arrivé de plus mémorable depuis l'année 1687 jusqu'à présent : avec l'établissement de la colonie françoise dans cette province de l'Amérique septentrionale sous la direction de la Compagnie des Indes : le climat, la nature & les productions de ce pays, l'origine & la religion des sauvages qui l'habitent, leurs moeurs & leurs coutumes

Summary

• Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane: contenant ce qui y est arrivé de plus mémorable depuis l'année 1687 jusqu'à présent (Historical memoirs on Louisiana, including the most interesting events from 1687 to the present) is based on a manuscript text by soldier Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny (born 1696) that was completed in France in 1747. The work was compiled and edited by the Abbé Jean-Baptiste Le Mascrier and published in Paris in 1753. Dumont's original manuscript is preserved in the Newberry Library in Chicago. It narrates the events of Dumont's life between 1715 and 1747, including his experiences in Louisiana from 1719 to 1737. Dumont took part in the French attack on Pensacola, helped build forts in New Biloxi and Yazoo, explored the Arkansas River, and described in great detail the city of Natchez as it appeared before the massacre of 1729. He includes accounts of expeditions against the Natchez and the Chickasaws, and he offers his reasons for the misfortunes of the Company of the Indies and the retrocession of the colony to the king in 1731. The second section of the memoir, the printed text of which is presented here, describes Louisiana, settlements, and Indian practices and customs. Le Mascrier eliminated much of the sharpness and crudity of the original account, but the work remains a rich original source of ethnographic information about the Louisiana Indians, especially the Natchez.

Names

• Dumont de Montigny, born 1696 Author.
• Le Mascrier, Jean-Baptiste, 1697-1760 Editor.

Created / Published

• Paris : Claude Jean Baptiste Bauche, 1753.

Headings

• -  United States of America--Florida
• -  United States of America--Louisiana
• -  United States of America--Mississippi
• -  1687 to 1747
• -  Chickasaw Indians
• -  Company of the Indies
• -  Description and travel
• -  Dumont de Montigny, born 1696
• -  France in America
• -  France--Colonies
• -  France. Army
• -  Indians of North America
• -  Indigenous peoples
• -  Mississippi River Valley
• -  Natchez Indians
• -  New France

Notes

• -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• -  Original resource extent: 338 pages.
• -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: The Newberry Library, Chicago, record for Ayer manuscript 257, Mémoire de Lxx Dxx officier ingénieur, contenant les evenements qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'à present [manuscript] : ainsi que ses remarques sur les moeurs, usages, et forces des diverses nations de l'Amerique Septentrionale et de ses productions.|Gordon Sayre, "Dumont de Montigny, Jean-François-Benjamin" in American National Biography (New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press for the American Council of Learned Societies, 1999). http://www.anb.org/articles/06/06- External
• -  Original resource at: National Library of France.
• -  Content in French.
• -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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• 1 online resource.

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.15525

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021667012

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• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021667012

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