Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is a comprehensive overview of French settlements and settlers in the United States and deals with the early French settlements; the French colonies in Louisiana; the Huguenots; French travelers; French exiles; French soldiers; settlements in South Carolina, in the West, and Canada; French land companies in the United States; French settlements in Gallipolis, Ohio, and Asylum, Pennsylvania, and Iowa; Bonapartist exiles in the United States; and Royalist exiles in the United States, and the lasting impact all have had on the American experience.
