Echec de la démesure en Guyane
Subtitle: autour de l'expédition de Kourou : une tentative européenne de réforme des conceptions coloniales sous Choiseul
By: Pierre Thibaudault.
Publisher: P. Thibaudault
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Saint-Maixent-l'Ecole
Language: fre
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Kourou Expedition, 1763-1765.; Immigrants -- French Guiana -- Registers.; French -- French Guiana -- Registers.; Kourou (French Guiana) -- History.; French Guiana -- Colonization.; French Guiana -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; France -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; French Guiana -- Genealogy.; France -- Genealogy.
Description: "Good narrative on settlement project launched to make up for the defeat in the Seven Years War includes selection of original sources. Presents important data on: 1) those who launched the project, the circumstances and magnitude of the failure, and its human cost; and 2) the 17,077 participants in the expedition, including their names, dates and places of embarcation, occupations, dates and places of birth, parents' names, and family connections among them"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Annexes": p. [169]-238.
"Les registres de l'expedition de Kourou": p. [241]-504.