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Letters written from the banks of the Ohio / Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia ; edited with an introduction by Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman.
LIBRA F517 .L689 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800.
- Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien.
- Scioto Land Company.
- French.
- History.
- Ohio River Valley--Description and travel.
- Ohio River Valley.
- French--Ohio River Valley--History--18th century.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "A critical translation of an account of a failed colonial project by opponents of the French Revolution, led by the aristocrat Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, in present-day Ohio"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio / Claude-François-Adrien Lezay-Marnésia Lezay-Marnésia, Claude-François-Adrien, Alan J. Singerman Singerman, Alan J.
- Editor's Foreword 45
- Letter to Monsieur Le Chevalier de Boufflers, Member of the French National Assembly: Marietta, November 15, 1790 47
- Letter to Monsiem Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Fort Pitt, November 2, 1791 52
- Letter to My Eldest Son: Philadelphia, December 15, 1791 99.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271077161
- 0271077166
- OCLC:
- 950637699
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