Mémoires of Michilimackinac and the Pays d'en Haut : Indians and French in the upper Great Lakes at the turn of the eighteenth century
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/LIH/977.492301/MEMOIRES

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Local Indigenous History Collection Local History/Genealogy/LIH/977.492301/MEMOIRES Available

Details

PUBLISHED
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ; Mackinac Island : Mackinac Island State Park Commission, [2019]
DESCRIPTION

lxxv, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781611863253, 1611863252, 9781611863253
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Translated from the French

Relation of the sieur De lamotte Cadillac, Captain en pied, having a company of the marine in Canada, the aforementioned [being the] commandant of Michilimackinac and other distant posts where he was for three years. a very interesting work, based upon the author's original and not yet printed. by D. . . . D., at Versailles at Parc au Cerf, 1718 -- D'Aigremont's mémoire of 14 November, 1708 -- Mémoire on the establishment of Michilimackinac, by Bégon, September 20, 1713 -- Appendix. Other translated documents that relate to Michilimackinac in this period

"The book offers scholarly translations of important documents that provide a window into Michilimackinac's centrality to the French imperial and trade network, and the place of Indians in French policy in this period"--

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