Bibframe Work

Part I. French Illinois

The land

The native peoples

The settlers

The slaves

The French settlements

The administration: military and civilian

The four Forts de Chartres

The convoys

The end of French Illinois

Part II. Commandants of Fort de Chartres

First commandment: Pierre-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriand (1718-24)

Second and fifth commandant: Claude-Charles Dutisné (1724-25, 1729-30)

Third commandant: Jean-Charles de Pradel (interim 1725)

Fourth commandant: Pierre-Charles Desliette (1725-29)

Sixth commandant: Robert Groston de St. Ange (1730-33)

Seventh commandant: Pierre d'Artaguiette d'Itouralde (1733-36)

Eighth commandant: Alphonse de la Buissonnière (1736-40)

Ninth and eleventh commandant: Jean-Baptiste Benoist de St. Clair (1740-42, 1749-51)

Tenth commandant: Jean-Gaspard de Bertet de la Clue (1742-49)

Twelfth commandant: Jean-Jacques de Macarty Mactique (1751-60)

Thirteenth commandant: Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villiers (1760-63)

Fourteenth and last French commandant: Louis Groston de St. Ange de Bellerive (1764-65)

Part III. People of Fort de Chartres

Marie Rouensa: the mother of French Illinois

Étienne de Véniard de Bourgmont and Ignon Ouaconisen (Françoise Missouri): an Indian in Paris

Terrisse de Ternan: a restless and worrisome personality

Claude Chetivau: the man who wanted to go to Canada

(François-) Pierre Boucher de Boucherville: escape to Fort de Chartres

Alphonse de la Buissonnière and Marie Thérèse Trudeau: marriage woes

Jacques-Sernan Voisin: a hero of the Chickasaw wars?

Jean Ducoutray: the chicken thief of Kaskaskia

Jean-Bernard Bossu: officer and travel writer

Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave: a man of many flags.