- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: University of Texas Press (30 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0292747349
- ISBN-13: 978-0292747340
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 18.1 x 2.5 cm
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"This book ranks as the best overall study of the French experience in Texas ever assembled. It will be useful to both specialists and general readers curious about the many French accomplishments and failures in Texas." Jack Jackson, editor of Texas by Teran: The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Teran on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
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The flag of France is one of the six flags that have flown over Texas, but all that many people know about the French presence in Texas is the ill-fated explorer Cavelier de La Salle, fabled pirate Jean Laffite, or Cajun music and food. Yet the French have made lasting contributions to Texas history and culture that deserve to be widely known and appreciated. In this book, Francois Lagarde and thirteen other experts present original articles that explore the French presence and influence on Texas history, arts, education, religion, and business from the arrival of La Salle in 1685 to 2002. Each article covers an important figure or event in the France-Texas story. The historical articles thoroughly investigate early French colonists and explorers, the French pirates and privateers, the Bonapartists of Champ-d'Asile, the French at the Alamo, Dubois de Saligny and French recognition of the Republic of Texas, the nineteenth-century utopists of Icaria and Reunion, and the French Catholic missions. Other articles deal with French immigration in Texas, including the founding of Castroville, Cajuns in Texas, and the French economic presence in Texas today (the first such study ever published). The remaining articles look at painters Theodore and Marie Gentilz, sculptor Raoul Josset, French architecture in Texas, French travelers from Theodore Pavie to Simone de Beauvoir who have written on Texas, and the French heritage in Texas education. More than seventy color and black-and-white illustrations complement the text.
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More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about the French in TX
29 Mar 2011
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This book has an incredible amount of information. I was interested to see if there was much remaining of French influence in Texas, as there is German, Czech, etc., so I did a search in books for French in Texas and this book popped up. I ordered it immediately and could hardly wait to receive it. Wow, this book is highly detailed and specific. The only problem is digging out the info.
This is 360 pages of very small print, so much information as to be pretty overwhelming. This would be a great book for a one or two semester college course (and that may be its intended purpose), but not so much for casual reading. Never-the-less everything you ever wanted to know about the French in Texas is there, and can be learned with just an investment of time. So this review is not meant to be critical, I think the author wrote the exact type of book he intended, and it's great for that sort of scholarly purpose. It's not what I expected, but even if I had a chance to examine it in advance, I would still order it. Congratulations to the author on such a complete and detailed work.
This is 360 pages of very small print, so much information as to be pretty overwhelming. This would be a great book for a one or two semester college course (and that may be its intended purpose), but not so much for casual reading. Never-the-less everything you ever wanted to know about the French in Texas is there, and can be learned with just an investment of time. So this review is not meant to be critical, I think the author wrote the exact type of book he intended, and it's great for that sort of scholarly purpose. It's not what I expected, but even if I had a chance to examine it in advance, I would still order it. Congratulations to the author on such a complete and detailed work.
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