02348cam a2200301 i 4500 295928348 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 050126s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9789814155151 $45.00 9814155152 $45.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Katz, Ron, 1938- French America [BOOK] : French architecture from colonialization to the birth of a nation / text by Ron Katz, photographs by Arielle de La Tour d'Auvergne. New York, NY : French Heritage Society, 2004. 223 pages : color illustrations,map, portraits ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 223.) Foreword / by Arnaud d'Hauterives -- Introduction / by Carl J. Ekberg -- Map of the Mississippi region -- Speaking French / by Roger G. Kennedy -- The earl coast settlements -- The pathfinders: Samuel Champlain -- French military architecture: Vauban and the American forts -- The early Huguenot settlements -- The journey of the Huguenots -- New Paltz -- New Rochelle -- Staten Island -- Charleston -- Early French outposts: the upper and middle Mississippi Valley -- Michigan -- The pathfinders: Jacques Marquette -- Colonial Michilimackinac -- Wisconsin -- The king and the councillor: Louis XIV and Colbert -- Prairie du Chien and Green Bay -- Illinois -- The pathfinders: Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle -- Peoria and Fort Crèvecoeur -- Starved Rock -- Cahokia -- Kaskaskia -- Prairie du Rocher -- Fort de Chartres -- Missouri -- Florissant -- St. Louis -- French Colonial architecture and its origins / by James Baker -- Ste. Genevieve -- The art of preservation carpentry / by Jesse Francis -- Restoring the Green Tree: a personal history / by Hilliard Goldman -- Taking root: the lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast -- Arkansas -- Arkansas Post -- Texas -- La Belle and. 20100106. Architecture, French United States. Architecture United States French influences. French United States History. La Tour d'Auvergne, Arielle de. French Heritage Society.