The memoir of lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747 : a sojourner in the French Atlantic / Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny ; translated by Gordon M. Sayre ; edited by Gordon M. Sayre and Carla Zecher.

In 1719, Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. His adventures over the next 18 years, as recorded in his 1747 memoir, underscore the complexity of the expanding French Atlantic world, offering a singular perspectiv...

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Main Author: Dumont de Montigny
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Other Authors: Sayre, Gordon M. (Gordon Mitchell), 1964-, Zecher, Carla, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Uniform Title:Regards sur le monde atlantique, 1715-1747.