Projet d'etablissement d'une ecole civile et militaire sous le titre d'Ecole royale des colonies
Contributors: Salles, André, b. 1860
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1768
Place of publication: S.l
Language: fre
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Schools; Education; Manuscripts; French Manuscripts; French
Notes: "Avertissement", p. i, 2nd count, has note at bottom of page identifying the author as: Guillaume de la Mardelle procureur general du Conseil superieur de Port au Prince 1768.

"Discours préliminaire. Considerations sur les colonies. Moyens de les conserver nécessité d'une éducation francoise", p. 1-12, 3rd count.

Plan detailing the structure and organization of the proposed Ecole royale des colonies which was to have been founded in Haiti in order to teach the new class of civic and military leaders in the French Caribbean. The school was to have eleven levels of instruction (from ages 9-19), teaching such subjects as personal hygiene, writing, drawing, music, dance, military tactics, religion, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and the French language. Despite the well planned project, the school was never built.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full marbled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired in honor of former Brown University President Ruth Simmons.

John Carter Brown has two letters about the manuscript dated from 1929 and signed by André Salles, inspector of the colonies and officer of the Légion d'honneur; also includes a printed funeral service notice for Salles dated 1929. These are housed in the JCB bibliographical file.