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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747. A Sojourner in the French Atlantic.
Montigny, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont De. Ed(S): Sayre, Gordon M.; Zecher, Carla
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Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715 1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic" Editor(s): Sayre, Gordon M.; Zecher, Carla. Translator(s): Sayre, Gordon M. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 455 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: 3JF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described the 1729 Natchez Uprising, and gave account of the 1739–1740 French expedition against the Chickasaw.
Dumont's adventures, as recorded in his 1747 memoir conserved at the Newberry Library, underscore the complexity of ... Read more
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described the 1729 Natchez Uprising, and gave account of the 1739–1740 French expedition against the Chickasaw.
Dumont's adventures, as recorded in his 1747 memoir conserved at the Newberry Library, underscore the complexity of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
467
Condition
New
Series
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Number of Pages
480
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807837221
SKU
V9780807837221
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About Montigny, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont De. Ed(S): Sayre, Gordon M.; Zecher, Carla
Gordon M. Sayre is associate professor and director of graduate studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Am©ricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.||Carla Zecher is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library and author of Sounding Objects: Musical ... Read more
Reviews for The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747. A Sojourner in the French Atlantic.
Dodging death and success from La Rochelle to Biloxi and back, with some gardening in between, Dumont de Montigny survived to put quill to paper. His restless memoir, now briskly translated, offers a stereotype-shattering window onto eighteenth-century transatlantic life and writing.
Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
Catherine Desbarats, McGill University