The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747

A Sojourner in the French Atlantic

By: Jean-François-Benjam Dumont de Montigny, Gordon M. Sayre (Editor), Carla Zecher (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 November 2012

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In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described the 1729 Natchez Uprising, and gave account of the 1739-1740 French expedition against the Chickasaw.
Dumont's adventures, as recorded in his 1747 memoir conserved at the Newberry Library, underscore the complexity of the expanding French Atlantic world, offering a singular perspective on early colonialism in Louisiana. His life story also provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of the peoples and environment of the lower Mississippi Valley. This English translation of the unabridged memoir features a new introduction, maps, and a biographical dictionary to enhance the text. Dumont emerges here as an important colonial voice and brings to vivid life the French Atlantic.

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Dodging death and success from La Rochelle to Biloxi and back, with some gardening in between, Dumont de Montigny survived to put quill to paper. His restless memoir, now briskly translated, offers a stereotype-shattering window onto eighteenth-century transatlantic life and writing.--Catherine Desbarats, McGill University

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Acknowledgments	p. v
List of Illustrations	p. ix
Abbreviations and Short Titles	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Chronology of the Life of Dumont and Events in His Memoir	p. 46
The Dumont Family	p. 51
Editorial Methods and Description of the Dumont de Montigny Manuscript Memoir	p. 51
Translator's Note	p. 64
The Memoir
Dedicatory Epistle	p. 71
Voyage to Quebec; Return to La Rochelle: 1714-1719	p. 73
Voyage to Louisiana; Return to Lorient: May 1719-March 1721	p. 97
Second Voyage to Louisiana; Settlement of the Colony: March 1721-Sept. 1722	p. 137
Quarrels in New Orleans; Battles at Natchez: Oct. 1722-Aug. 1724	p. 171
Pascagoula; Natchez: Aug. 1724-Sept. 1729	p. 196
The Natchez Revolt: Autumn 1728-Summer 1735	p. 227
Life in New Orleans; The First Chickasaw War: Sept. 1732-June 1737	p. 256
Return to France; The Second Chickasaw War: June 1737-Sept. 1746	p. 278
The English Attack Brittany: Sept.-Oct. 1746	p. 301
Financial Difficulties; Imprisonment: 1746-1747	p. 318
Ethnography	p. 333
Natural History and the Story of Juchereau de Saint Denis	p. 372
Title	p. 405
Preface	p. 406
List of the Names of Nations Known to the Author That Are Found in the Island of North America	p. 408
Table	p. 409
A Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Named in Dumont's Manuscript Memoir	p. 413
Index	p. 443
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