[89] [It consists of two series of lectures, the first entitled The Poetry, or the Romance of the History of Louisiana, and the second, Louisiana, its History as a French Colony. He says in a preface to a third series, printed separately in 1852 at New York,—Louisiana, its History as a French Colony, Third Series of Lectures (Sabin, vol. vii. nos. 26,793, 26,796),—that the first series was given to “freaks of the imagination,” the second was “more serious and useful” in getting upon a basis more historic; while there was a still further “change of tone and manner” in the third, which brings the story down to 1769. This was published at New York in 1851. Mr. Gayarré had already published, in 1830, an Essai historique sur Louisiane in two volumes (Sabin vol. vii. nos. 26,791, 26,795), and Romance of the History of Louisiana, a Series of Lectures, New York, 1848 (Sabin, vol. vii. nos. 26,795, 26,797, 26,799).—Ed.]
[90] This was published at New Orleans in 1846-1847 in two volumes (Sabin, vol. vii. no. 26,792).
[91] Published as History of Louisiana: the Spanish Domination, the French Domination, and the American Domination,—the three parts respectively in 1854, 1855, and 1866.
[92] [There are many papers on Louisiana history in De Bow’s Review, and for these, including several reviews of Gayarré, see Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, p. 772, where other references will be found to the Southern Literary Messenger, etc.—Ed.]
[93] [The original edition was published at Paris in 1758. An English version, The History of Louisiana, or the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina; containing a Description of the Countries that lie on both sides of the River Mississippi, appeared in London in 1763 (two vols.) and 1774 (one vol.), in an abridged and distorted form (Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 1,352; Sabin, x. 223; Field, Indian Bibliography, nos. 910-912). H. H. Bancroft (Northwest Coast, i. 598) mentions a different translation published in 1764; but I have not seen it. Field says of the original: “It is difficult to procure the work complete in all the plates and maps, which should number forty-two.”—Ed.]
[94] The authorities upon which are based the statements of most writers upon the history of Louisiana have been exhumed from the archives in Paris, but there are French sources for narratives of the adventures of Saint-Denys which are still missing. Le Page du Pratz (i. 178) says: “What I shall leave out will be found some day, when memoirs like these of M. de Saint-Denis and some others concerning the discovery of Louisiana, which I have used, shall be published.”
[95] [It was issued in two volumes at Paris in 1753 (Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 996; Leclerc, no. 2,750, thirty francs; Field, Indian Bibliography, no. 463).—Ed.]
[96] Journal historique, etc., p. 310.
[97] Nouvelle biographie générale, sub “Butel Dumont.”
[98] Considérations géographiques, etc., par Philippe Buache (Paris, 1753), p. 36. See Vol. II. p. 461.