Description
Book SynopsisA critical translation of an account of a failed colonial project by opponents of the French Revolution, led by the aristocrat Claude-Francois-Adrien de Lezay-Marnesia, in present-day Ohio.
Trade Review“This book is a major addition to the fields of American studies and the history of political thought, and it will be welcomed by historians and political theorists alike. Benjamin Hoffmann’s erudite introduction offers a genuine tour de force in intellectual history that brings a significant contribution to an important ongoing debate on the image and role of America in the new world order.”
—Aurelian Craiutu,author of A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830
“Hoffman’s excellent edition includes an introduction with a full account of the background to the proposed colony and its checkered history, as well as an analysis of the literary strategies and ‘alternative facts’ that characterize the Letters. . . . The book will interest students of American Studies, French Revolutionary history, travel literature, Rousseau, and utopian fiction. We add to that potential audience those persons . . . with personal or professional roots in the regions around the banks of the Ohio.”
—Kathleen Hardesty Doig XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
Table of ContentsContents
Editor’s Note and Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio
Editor’s Foreword
Letter to Monsieur Le Chevalier de Boufflers
Letter to Monsieur Jacques-Henri-Bernadin de Saint-Pierre
Letter to my Eldest Son
Appendix
Prospectus for the Colony on the Ohio and Scioto Rivers in America
The French on the Banks of the Scioto
The Paris High Court on the Scioto
Letter Written by a Frenchman Emigrating to the Lands of the Scioto Company
New Prospectus of the Scioto Company
Modern Chivalry
Letter to Monsieur Audrain
My Memories
Chronology
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names
Notes
