Abstract
This revised edition of Histoire de l'Amérique francaise (first published in 2003) successfully reconnects the history of France with its former possessions in continental North America. Gilles Havard, a specialist on the Pays d'en Haut (roughly the Great Lakes area), and Cécile Vidal, a specialist on lower and upper Louisiana, lament the ignorance of French America among the French public and even in universities. Might it be, the cynic could ask, that Louis XV's government abandoned New France before and after the marquis de Montcalm's shockingly inept defeat at the Plains of Abraham in 1759; that the same government turned a deaf ear to French Creole resistance in 1768 to the imposition of Spanish rule in lower Louisiana; or that the French icon Napoleon Bonaparte, after the disastrous defeat of his expedition to restore French rule to Haiti, impulsively sold the Louisiana territory to the new United States? Not a record for the “grand nation” to trumpet.
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