Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Figures List
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: French Illinois
The Land
Native Peoples
Settlers
Slavery
The French Settlements
Military and Civilian Administration
The Four Forts de Chartres
Convoys
The End of French Illinois
Part Two: Commandants of Fort de Chartres
First Commandant: Pierre-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriand (1718–24)
Second and Fifth Commandant: Claude-Charles Dutisné (1724–25, 1729–30)
Third Commandant: Jean-Charles de Pradel (Interim 1725)
Fourth Commandant: Pierre-Charles Desliette (1725–29)
Sixth Commandant: Robert Groston de St. Ange (1730–33)
Seventh Commandant: Pierre d’Artaguiette d’Itouralde (1733–36)
Eighth Commandant: Claude-Alphonse de La Buissonnière (1736–40)
Ninth and Eleventh Commandant: Jean-Baptiste Benoist de St. Clair (1740–42, 1749–51)
Tenth Commandant: Jean-Gaspard de Bertet de La Clue (1742–49)
Twelfth Commandant: Jean-Jacques de Macarty Mactique (1751–60)
Thirteenth Commandant: Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villiers (1760–63)
Fourteenth and Last French Commandant: Louis Groston de St. Ange de Bellerive (1764–65)
Part Three: People of Fort de Chartres
Marie Rouensa-8cate8a: The Mother of French Illinois
Étienne de Véniard de Bourgmont and Ignon Ouaconisen (Françoise Missouri): An Explorer and an Indian in Paris
Terrisse de Ternan: A Restless and Worrisome Personality
Claude Chetivau: The Man Who Wanted to Go to Canada
(François-)Pierre Boucher de Boucherville: Escape to Fort de Chartres
Claude-Alphonse de La Buissonnière and Marie-Thérèse Trudeau: Marriage Woes
Jacques-Sernan Voisin: A Hero of the Chickasaw Wars?
Jean Ducoutray: The Chicken Thief of Kaskaskia
Jean-Bernard Bossu: Officer and Travel Writer
Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave: A Man of Many Flags
Afterword
Notes
Lexicon
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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