
Lives of Fort de Chartres
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Content
- 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
- A Shawnee Book: Also available in this series . . .
- Back Cover
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