The transformation of territory into property for European colonists lies at the heart of the colonization process.  

Under French rule, New Orleans took only limited advantage of its position as the gateway to the Mississippi, but it quickly became a slave society following the model of Saint-Domingue.

Both an island and a town, Montreal boasted two essential geographical features that made it an indispensable site for Indigenous peoples and, later, European colonists: the Saint Lawrence River and its tributaries and th...

Under the French Regime, the city of Quebec was the administrative centre of the colony from 1608 to 1759.

Attracted by the project of founding a new society or simply better conditions of life for themselves and their families, French immigrants brought to the USA their techniques, cultural practices and art of living. ...

New Orleans is the USA’s most Caribbean town, in part because, in the wake of the Haitian Revolution, it welcomed some 15,000 refugees (White colonists, free people of color and enslaved people) from the French colony of ...

During political unrest, from the Revolution to the Restoration, the French took refuge in the United States. Some bought land in states recently opened for settlement from companies, but these speculations ended in failu...

Que ce soit dans le cadre impérial français ou britannique, les huguenots ont été présents aux Amériques, sur le continent ou aux îles, du milieu du XVIe siècle à la fin du XVIIIe.

Right from the start of hostilities, French immigrants contributed to the war effort. A bloody experience which was to help attach them permanently to their adoptive country.

In the early 18th century, the French started to immigrate to Canada. Until the British conquest in 1760, 35,000 did so. Perhaps fewer than half came to stay. Of them, about 9,000 left behind lineages that today include s...