Kourou and the Struggle for a French America pp 77-103 | Cite as
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Abstract
Seventeen thousand individuals registered in three folio-sized tomes. Among them were five members of the Siffre family — Joseph, Claude, Sibille, Françoise, and François — from Hunzel, in the Palatinate, selfdefined as “laborers.” Another potential settler was Antoinette Schwaab, registered as a “bourgeoise from Lower Alsace,” with no other family or professional information indicated. Other names hint at origins from even farther afield. There were men and women from the most remote regions of the Holy Roman Empire, such as the area that is the modernday Czech Republic. They left the banks of the Rhine or a devastated Palatinate; they skirted the plain of Alsace; they hiked over the Vosges mountain range, across Chalons, Bourges, and Poitiers; and they traveled through the region of Tours, Berry, and Angoumois. Their destination was the Charente, where they would embark for Cayenne.
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Eighteenth Century Travel Expense French Government Isle Royale French TerritoryPreview
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