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St. Louis Rising - The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive (Hardcover)
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St. Louis Rising - The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive (Hardcover)
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The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders
Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of
wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the
contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions
shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did
more than Louis St. Ange de Bellerive. His commitment to the
Bourbon monarchy and to civil tranquility made him the prime mover
as St. Louis emerged during the tumult following the French and
Indian War. Drawing on new source materials, the authors delve into
the complexities of politics, Indian affairs, slavery, and material
culture that defined the city's founding period. Their alternative
version of the oft-told tale uncovers the imperial realities--as
personified by St. Ange--that truly governed in the Illinois
Country of the time, and provide a trove of new information on
everything from the fur trade to the arrival of the British and
Spanish after the Seven Years' War.
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