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Article: Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America.(Book review)
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- Ontario History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Ontario Historical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
By Philip Marchand. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005. xvii+ 444 pp. Maps. $37.99 hardcover. ISBN 0-7710-5677-X.
Philip Marchand's touching and personal pilgrimage to the dim past of the French in North America reminded me of my own encounter with that increasingly vague and little appreciated epoch. Twenty-five years ago, while teaching Canadian history at the University of Vermont and raising two toddlers, I recall walking along Church Street in Burlington. Hearing my wife and me speaking in French to the children, senior citizens of grandparent age stopped to do likewise. More ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Robert Cavelier La Salle, sieur de
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
700+ words
...Robert Cavelier La Salle, sieur de , 1643-87, French explorer in North America, one of the most celebrated ... granted a patent of nobility, La Salle began (1675) to develop ... probably in a storm. La Salle went along Lake Michigan ...
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