Title: Echec de la démesure en Guyane
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: History, Genealogy, Registers, Emigration and immigration, Kourou Expedition, 1763-1765, Immigrants, French, Colonization
Places: French Guiana, France, Kourou (French Guiana)
LC classification: F2462 .T46 1995