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The Shaping of the French Colonial Empire
A Bio-Bibliography of the Careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert
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The Shaping of the French Colonial Empire
A Bio-Bibliography of the Careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert
About this book
This bio-bibliography, first published in 1985, of the colonial "ministries" of Cardinal Richelieu, Nicholas Fouquet and Jean-Baptiste Colbert examines the primary and secondary sources available for a re-evaluation of the formative era of the French overseas empire. This volume will be of great interest to students of history and imperialism.
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SUBJECT INDEX
Acadia: English-French struggle for, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 507
correspondence about, 186
documents on, 211
commercial company for, 1650s, 241, 796
Capuchin missions in, 483
patent letters of governors of, 507
Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, duchesse de: information about, 270, 417, 555
support of missions, 399, 417, 484
detested by Mazarin, 504.
See also dévots
Aligre, Etienne d’, adviser to Fouquet, then Colbert: as member of Council of Commerce, 1661, 307
helps Colbert prepare for trial of Fouquet, 335, 618
information about, 584
Amazon Valley, as focus of French initiatives, 518.
See also Brazil, French
Americas: French manuscripts relative to, in Library of Congress, 9
maps of, 538
slave trade to, 596
French image of, 643, 647, 803
French empire in, 691
Amerindians: viewed negatively by French, 403, 491, 545, 767
friendly relations of, with French, 493, 512, 520, 638, 673, 689, 760
living in a state of nature, 501
French images of, 607, 636, 652, 826
relations with French, in Canada, 686
and the Jesuit missions, 693.
See also Caribs; Iriquois, Galibis
Amville, Charles de Lévis, due d’, viceroy of America: letters of provision as, 40, 311, 494
unsuccessful in attempt to nominate governors of New France, 311
Anne of Austria, queen of France, Grand Master of Navigation and Commerce: support of Jesuit missions, 40
letters of provision to, as Grand Master of Navigation and Commerce, 317
book dedicated to, 492
Antilles, English: memoirs on, 226
documents about, 228
Antilles, French: Dutch influence at, 81, 176, 197
edicts and laws concerning, 149, 513, 551
notes and documents on, 159, 208, 250, 300, 361, 769
removal of island proprietors at, 176, 210, 513
missions at, 203, 474, 521, 762
memoirs and relations of voyages abou...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction (James A. Casada)
- Preface
- SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
- SECTION II: ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
- SECTION III: PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES
- SECTION IV: SECONDARY SOURCES: BOOKS
- SECTION V: SECONDARY SOURCES: ARTICLES
- INDEXES: Author
- Subject