Bibliography for

“The 1758–1759 Voyage to Louisiana...”

 

Books:

Aman, Jacques. Les officiers bleus dans la Marine française au XVIII^e siècle. Genève: Librairie Droz, 1976.

Archives Nationales. Les Archives nationales: État général des fonds, tom. 3, Marine et outre-mer. Paris: Archives Nationales, 1980.

Bourdé de Villehuet, Jacques, Manuel des marins ou explication des termes de marine, 2 vols. Lorient: Julien Le Jeune Fils, 1773.

Bourgin, George, and Étienne Taillemite. Inventaire des Archives de la Marine: Service hydrographique, sous-série 4 JJ (Journaux de bord). Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1963.

Brossard, Maurice Raymond de, Kerguelen: Le découvreur et ses îles. Paris: Editions France-Empire, 1970.

Carroll, William M., trans., and Frank Wagner, ed. Béranger’s Discovery of Aransas Pass. Corpus Christi, Texas: Friends of the Corpus Christi Museum, 1983.

De Brossard, [Maurice Raymond]. Kerguelen: Le Découvreur et ses îles. Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1970.

Demerliac, Alain. La Marine de Louis XV: Nomenclature des navires français de 1715 à 1774. Nice: Éditions Omega, 1995.

Gallup, Andrew, and Donald F. Shaffer. La Marine: The French Colonial Soldier in Canada, 1745–1761. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1992.

Johnston, A. J. B., Religion in Life at Louisbourg, 1713–1758. Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 1984.

———. The Summer of 1744: A Portrait of Life in 18th-Century Louisbourg, revised edition. Ottawa: National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1991.

Lescallier, baron Daniel. Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine anglois et françois en deux parties. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1777.

Marquardt, Karl Heinz. Eighteenth-century Rigs & Rigging. Cedarburg, Wisconsin: Phoenix Publications, Inc., 1992.

McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard, trans. and ed. Iberville’s Gulf Journals. University, Alabama: The Univ. of Alabama Press, 1981.

Menier, Marie-Antoinette, Étienne Taillemite, and Gilberte de Forges. Inventaire des archives coloniales: Correspondance à l’arrivée en provenance de la Louisiane, 2 vols. Paris: Archives Nationales, 1983.

Moore, Christopher. Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982.

Pares, Richard. War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739–1763. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1963.

Parkman, Francis. A Half-Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, 2 vols. Edited by David Levin. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

Pritchard, James. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Naval Expedition to North America. McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 1995.

———. Louis XV’s Navy, 1748–1762: A Study of Organization and Administration. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 1987.

Pusch, Donald E., trans. and ed. The Naval Service Dossier de of Jean-François Le Large, Capitaine de Brûlot, 1712–1761. Seabrook, Texas: Petite Presse du Lac, 2003.

Rey-Courtel, Anne-Lise and Élisabeth Houriez. Les Archives nationales: État des inventaires, tom. 3, Marine et outre-mer. Paris: Archives Nationales, 2000).

Vergé-Franceschi, Michel. Chronique maritime de la France d’Ancien régime, 1492–1792. Paris: SEDES, 1998.

———. La Marine francaise au XVIII^e siècle: guerres – administration – exploration. Paris: SEDES, 1996.

Villiers du Terrage, baron Marc de. Les dernières années de la Louisiane française. Paris: Librairie orientale & américaine, 1903.

 

Articles:

Balcom, B. A.. “Louisbourg.” American History 30: 42–47, 60.

Pusch, Donald E. “Employees of the Marine in the Colony of Louisiana, 1759,” The Louisiana Genealogical Register 47 (2000): 69–87, 100.

———. “The Capture of the Chariot Royal.” Le Réviel Acadien 18 (November 2002): 81–84.

———. “French Ships’ Logs Now at Clayton.” The CLF Newsletter (newsletter of the Clayton Library Friends, Houston) 17 (July 2003): 1, 3–4.

 

Other:

De Berardinis, Robert. The Official Clayton Library Friends Finding Aid for the Microfilm Edition of the Library of Congress’s “Louisiana Colonial Records Project.” Unpublished typescript, Clayton Library. 2003.

Moore, Christopher. Annotations to “Louisbourg Portraits” by Christopher Moore. Unpublished typescript, Fortress Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada. 1982.

 

Light Reading (France during the reign of Louis XV):

Mitford, Nancy. Madame de Ponpadour. New York, Harper & Row, 1968.

Pevitt, Christine. The Man Who Would be King: The Life of Philippe d’Orleans, Regent of France. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997.

 

Primary:

“Appointements et Gages des officiers de Port, Pilottes, et autres Entretenus pour le service de la Marine, à la Nouvelle Orleans,” 31 December 1759; A.N., Colonies D^2D 10, no folio numbers; microfilm, Library of Congress, Louisiana Colonial Records Project, reel 30.

“Arrêt qui fixe et liquide à la somme de 11775 l[ivres] la créance de Malroux pour l’affrètement du navire la Fidèle-de-Seudre, destiné à Saint-Domingue, 29 août 1760”; A.N., Colonies A7 568, fol. 359.

“Expeditions concernant les Officiers des Colonies,” entry of 1 August 1757; A.N., Colonies, D^2C 3, fol. 100v.

“Liste des officiers et autres personnes de la Loüisianne qui passent en France sur les vaisseaux du Roi l’Opale et la Fortune,” New Orleans, 31 December 1758; A.N., Colonies F^5B 34; microfilm, National Archives of Canada.

“Requête de Michel Toebaerts de Bordeaux…pour être reçu capitaine, maître ou patron et pilote,” 8 March 1758; Archives départementales de la Gironde, série amirauté de Guyenne, attributions judiciaires, 6B; microfilm, National Archives of Canada, reel F-1708.

Arrêt qui ordonne la poursuite du recouvremente du fret des denrées et marchandises chargées à la Louisiane sur la frégate l’Opale et la flûte la Fortune…, 20 March 1761; A.N., Colonies A 8 591, fol. 32. Photocopy provided by the Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris.

Brochard at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 9 October 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 275–82.

Brochard at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 16 December 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 162–3.

Burial record of Jean François Le Large, 19 August 1761, burial register for the year 1761, St. Louis de Rochefort, fol. 16; Departmental Archives of the Charente Maritime; FHL microfilm 1732968.

Cassini de Thury, César-François. Carte géométrique de la France. 1783. CD-ROM edition. Paris: Archives de l’Institute géographique national, 1999.

D’Aubeterre to Wall, 16 June 1759; A.N., Colonies C^13A 43, fol. 288–9. An extract of Wall’s response, dated 20 July 1759, follows the d’Aubeterre letter at fol. 289–90.

De Moras at Versailles to Intendant at Rochefort, 19 January 1758; Archives du Port de Rochefort, 1 E 159, fol. 245–50. Transcript provided by the Service historique de la Marine, Rochefort.

Deposition of Jean-François [Le] Large before Jn. Greenway, Portsmouth, 17 December 1756; The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office (PRO), High Court of Admiralty, prize papers of the Chariot Royal, HCA 32/178, part 1; microfilm, National Archives of Canada, reel B-5734.

Dossier de service of François, comte de Plas; A.N., Marine C⁷ 250; microfilm, Archives Nationales.

Dossier de service of Jean-François Le Large; A.N., Marine C⁷ 177; microfilm, Archives Nationales.

Dossier de service of Vincent de Rochemore; A.N., Marine C⁷ 280; microfilm, National Archives of Canada, reel F805.

État civil recordation of the marriage act of Jean-François Le Large and Marguerite-Louise Sanson, Notre-Dame-des Anges de Louisbourg, 8 July 1737; A.N., Colonies, G¹ 406; microfilm, National Archives of Quebec.

Enumeration of the household of Pierre Le Large, “Recensement des habitants Etablis dans la havre de Louisbourg Suivant le rang de leurs habitations aprendre depuis la pointe du Sud-ouest en suivant le long de la baye avec le nombre de leur Enfants, de leur pêcheurs et domestiquers fait le quatrieme janvier 1715”; A.N., Colonies, G¹ 466, 51; copy from microfilm CEA F1801, National Archives of Quebec.

Intendant at Rochefort to de Moras at Versailles, 27 December 1757; Archives du Port de Rochefort, 1 E 472, fol. 430–1. Transcript provided by the Service historique de la Marine, Rochefort.

Kerlerec at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 12 August 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 31–32.

Kerlérec at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 17 September 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A, fol. 62–3v.

Kerlérec at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 19 September 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 64.

Kerlérec at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 21 October 1757. A.N., Colonies C^13A 39, fol. 277–9.

Kerlérec at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 20 December 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 164.

Log of the flûte Chariot Royal, 1750–1751; A.N., Marine 4 JJ 19, journal 75; microfilm, Library of Congress microfilm, Louisiana Colonial Records Project, reel 20.

Log of the flûte Fortune, 1758–1759; A.N., Marine 4 JJ 19, journal 81; microfilm, Library of Congress, Louisiana Colonial Records Project, reel 20.

Log of the frigate Opale, 13 May 1758–1759; MSS 184, The Historic New Orleans Collection.

Log of the Trobay, 1 February 1756 – 31 January 1757; The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office (PRO), Admiralty Records, ADM 51/1001, part 2, entry of 30 November 1756.

Masters Papers (lettres de maîtrise) of Jean Le Large, 22 November 1734; Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime, La Rochelle, série amirauté de Louisbourg, B 270, fol. 30v–32v; microfilm, National Archives of Canada, reel F433.

Procès-verbal of the public sale of Negroes, 27 September – 2 October 1758, attached to a letter from M. de Rochemore; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 189–98.

Report of Livaudais, New Orleans, 5 October 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A, fol. 262–3.

Rochemore at Fort Royal (Grenada) to Minister of the Marine, 7 July 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 176–8.

Rochemore at Fort Royal (Grenada) to Minister of the Marine, 16 July 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 179–80.

Rochemore at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 25 March 1759; A.N., Colonies C^13A 41, fol. 197–200.

Rochemore at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 31 December 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 213–4.

Rochemore at New Orleans to Minister of the Marine, 31 December 1758; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 208–10.

Rouillé to Vaudreuil, “Extrait de l’instruction donnée au S. Le Large, Commandant la flute du Roy Le Parham,” [1752]; Vaudreuil Papers, Loudoun Collection (LO 429), The Huntington Library and Gardens, San Marino, California; copy from microfilm.

Troop embarkation list of the flûte Fortune, Citadel of Ré, 7 March 1757; A.N., Colonies F^5B 56.

Troop embarkation lists of the Patriote and the Bizarre, Citadel of Ré, 25 April 1758; A.N., Colonies F^5B 56.

Typescript, “Annotations to ‘Louisbourg Portraits’ by Christopher Moore.” Archives of Fortress Louisbourg.

Unknown (on behalf of Vilemont) to Berrier, Minister and Secretary of State of the Marine, no date [ca. 1759]; A.N., Colonies C^13A 40, fol. 256.