The First French Colonial Empire

From the quest for freedom to the pursuit of modernity: America as a country of inspiration, disenchantment and concern. French travellers in North America from the War of Independence to the late 19th century. ...

Many French maps of North America can now be found in the collection of the Service Hydrographique de la Marine at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

The Mississippi, which means Great River in Ojibwe, was absent from European maps for a surprising number of years, despite the broad extent of the lands irrigated by the river and the number of Indigenous territories it ...

The most recent land in North America, the Mississippi Delta formed over the past 7,000 years.