SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
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France. Sovereigns, etc., 1715-1774 (Louis XV) The earliest known Louisiana imprint. A New Orleans broadside of 1764, printed by Denis Braud, first printer of Louisiana, publicizing a message from the King of France to his director general in Louisiana, advising the latter of cession of the colony to the King of Spain and directing him to deliver over Louisiana to the governor to be named by the Spanish King. Repro- duced in facsimile from the only known copy of the broadside in the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, New
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