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"Fleur deLyse and Calumet" Andre' Penicaut Completed 1723 First published in French 1883 Translated into English 1952/53 by: Richebourt Gaillard McWilliams, Birmingham-Southern College.

Excerpted passages on Dauphin Island listed below ... (PDF format, some excerpts with multiple pages could be slow loading..) 1699 - First French landing on the Island.. Discovering "Massacre Island" pgs. 9, 10, 11 1701 - Iberville, with supporting workers, returns to Massacre Island and travels north to "Riviere de la Mobile, building a fort at north end of the bay. pgs. 56, 57, 58, 59 1702 - Iberville returns, renames the island to Isle Dauphine. Builds warehouses and barracks. pgs. 60, 61, 62, 63 1704 - Arrival of the Pelican Girls pgs. 96 & 97 1707 - Ships Arrive, houses built pgs. 117, 118, 119 1708 - Life with the Indians and the French - a built is built pgs. 126 & 127 1709 - A fort and a church is built pgs. 128, 129, 130, 131 1710 - Isle Dauphine settlers expand pgs. 132, 133, 134, 135 (see footnote on page 135) 1712 - de Cadillac - the real person pgs. 143 & 144 (see footnotes) 1713 - French frigate named La Dauphine pgs. 158 & 159 1714 - the frigate La Dauphine returns pgs. 166 & 167 (no real significance, except statement of fact) 1717 - de Cadillac replacement arrives, another fort is built pgs. 203, 204, 205, 206 Storm blocks harbor, Epinet, Governor-General moves workmen and soldiers to New Biloxi pgs. 207, 208, 209 1718 - Bienville returns to Isle Dauphine, leaves to survey New Orleans delta. 500 souls arrive to the island and then on to New Orleans. pgs.210 & 211 Bienville commissioned Commandant- General of Louisiana pg. 214 Narrative describing a way of life and historically proving Bienville spent a great deal of time o on Isle Dauphine, traveling to New Orleans, Pascagoula, Biloxi and Mobile pgs. 220 - 227 1719 - Three ships arrive Isle Dauphine. War declared with Spain (further confirmation Bienville based his travels from the island). pgs. 228 - 236 **See: Battle of Isle Dauphine on pg. 232 1720 - Isle Dauphine abandoned, and, additional references to defense of the island in 1719. pgs. 247, 248		Being the Andre' Penicaut narrative of French adventure in Louisiana. (Archives editor: "An eye witness account!") "No truer painter of Indian customs and of pioneer life can be found, and no writer has ever told a better story," Mobile historian Peter J. Hamilton wrote about Penicaut, carpenter to the King's ships - turned chronicler. Penicaut's 22-year narrative of French adventure in Louisiana is no less than an eyewitness account of empire building. When Penicaut came to the New World with Iberville in 1699, the wilderness of Louisiana was still unmarked by civilization. He helped build two Biloxis, Mobile, Natchitoches, Natchez, New Orleans and, of course, Isle Dauphine. He traveled up the "Missicipy" to the Illinois country and even into Minnesota. He went overland from Mobile to Rio Grande to open trade with the Spanish. Penicaut first arrived in the New World in 1699. Returned to his native France in 1721 with a loss of his vision in both eyes. He finished the narrative in 1723. Originally published and translated in fragmentary parts in New York in 1869. Complete text published in French, Paris in 1883.. Translated from the French manuscripts and edited with supporting footnotes 1952/1953 by Richebourt Gaillard McWilliams, Mary Collett Munger Professor of English in Birmingham-Southern College. Published 1953 by Louisiana State University Press. Book recovered and treasured by Ms Francis Young, Dauphin Island, AL

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