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

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Main Author: Katz, Ron, 1938-
Corporate Author: French Heritage Society.
Contributors: La Tour d'Auvergne, Arielle de.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : French Heritage Society, 2004.
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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 early east 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 Roch
  • 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 Orlean
  • 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 français / by Roger Kennedy
  • French inspiration in the plan of the nation's capital / by Iris Miller
  • Jefferson, Monticello and "l'ésprit français"
  • A living heritage
  • French Heritage Society.