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Book/Printed Material Memoir on Louisiana to be Presented with a Map of This Land to the Sovereign Council of the Navy. Mémoire sur la Louisiane, pour estre présenté avec la carte de ce pais au Conseil souverain de la Marine

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Title

  • Memoir on Louisiana to be Presented with a Map of This Land to the Sovereign Council of the Navy.

Other Title

  • Mémoire sur la Louisiane, pour estre présenté avec la carte de ce pais au Conseil souverain de la Marine

Summary

  • Memoire sur la Louisiane (Memoir on Louisiana) is a 23-page handwritten document by the French priest François Le Maire (1575--1658), written for presentation to the sovereign council of the Navy in March 1717, some months before the Compagnie d'Occident (Company of the West) was established with a business monopoly in New France in August of that year. After describing the present state of the young colony (including its geography, ports, natives, and colonists), the author sets forth France's interests in developing Louisiana and "the most appropriate means" for achieving this goal. The memoir is signed: "François Le Maire, priest of Paris, apostolic missionary of the house and seminary of foreign missions in Paris. At Fort Louis, Louisiana, 1 March 1717." Fort Louis (present-day Mobile, Alabama) was the capital of Louisiana until 1722. At the end of the memoir is a map of North America, based on "the latest memoirs collected for the establishment of the Company of the West." New France is shown as extending from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, including the present-day state of Florida. The lands east of the Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains are shown as English colonies and not part of New France. The inset map in the upper left shows the colony of Louisiana and the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico.

Names

  • Le Maire, François, 1675-1748 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1717.

Headings

  • -  France
  • -  Canada
  • -  United States of America--Louisiana
  • -  United States of America--Mississippi
  • -  1717
  • -  Colonization
  • -  Company of the West
  • -  Description and travel
  • -  France--Colonies
  • -  France. Ministry of the Navy and Colonies
  • -  Mississippi River Valley
  • -  New France

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 23 pages : pen and ink.
  • -  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.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668136

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Le Maire, François, Author. Memoir on Louisiana to be Presented with a Map of This Land to the Sovereign Council of the Navy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1717] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668136/.

APA citation style:

Le Maire, F. (1717) Memoir on Louisiana to be Presented with a Map of This Land to the Sovereign Council of the Navy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668136/.

MLA citation style:

Le Maire, François, Author. Memoir on Louisiana to be Presented with a Map of This Land to the Sovereign Council of the Navy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1717] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668136/>.