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Ghost Empire - How the French Almost Conquered North America (Hardcover)
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Ghost Empire - How the French Almost Conquered North America (Hardcover)
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After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi,
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was murdered by his own
men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. But the vast
land he claimed for France in 1682 could have become--had it not
been for a few twists of history--a French-speaking empire
extending more than a thousand miles beyond Quebec. This
alternative North America would have been Catholic in religion and
granted Native peoples a prominent role. Philip Marchand probes the
intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the
astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois,
fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the
Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on
the ways in which the drama of this ghost empire continues to be
played out in battle reenactments and in parish churches and
wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. Throughout
the book, Marchand draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood
in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears,
hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel
the burdens and the ironies of history.
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