Proclamation. Au nom de la République Française. Laussat, préfet colonial, aux Louisianais. : Louisianais, votre séparation de la France marque une des époques les plus honteuses de ses fastes, sous un gouvernement déjà faible et corrompu ... A la Nouvelle-Orléans, le [blank], an XI de la République Française...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louisiana. Préfet colonial.

Contributor:

Laussat, Pierre-Clément de, 1756-1835.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 4559.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Louisiana--History--1803-1865.

Louisiana.

History.

Louisiana--Politics and government--1803-1865.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[New Orleans] : [publisher not identified], [1803]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

This proclamation, the first issued by Laussat after his arrival at New Orleans as colonial prefect, announces the retrocession of Louisiana by Spain to the French Republic.

Signed: Par le préfet colonial, l'officier d'administration, faisant fonctions de secrétaire, [blank].

Two states noted. In one, the date "6 germinal [i.e., March 27, 1803]" is inserted in ms. and the signatures "Laussat" and "Daugerot" are in ms. In the other, the date and signatures are printed.

The American Antiquarian Society copy is a positive photostat; the original, held by the Archives nationales, France, has the date and signatures in ms.

Text printed in two columns.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 4559).

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