Marion F Godfroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6405511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion F Godfroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion F |
| FAMILY NAME | Godfroy |
| SIGNATURE | GODFROY M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Recherche d'Histoire Quantitative |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Forces Present
The Jesuits arrived in Guiana in 1666 to evangelize the Indians. The 104 priests sent to Guiana over the next century honored their religious responsibilities while also becoming successful colonial landowners. 2 Exploration was another of their notable activities, as illustrated by the achievements of their most experienced explorers: Fathers Grillet and Bechamel. These two traveled up the La Comté River in 1674, implementing the principle of su…
White Colony
What does a colony look like? What can be built there? All of France was caught up with these questions in the eighteenth century. In 1763, shopkeepers, intellectuals, and politicians were all convinced that their present and perhaps even their future had become Atlantic. Choiseul, Préfontaine, and Turgot were all carried by the same impe- tus towards the new colony of Cayenne. Three questions defined Turgot’s approach to the colony. What is the …
Conclusion
Dramatic failure. Colonial tragedy. Health disaster. There is no shortage of descriptions to stigmatize the Kourou expedition. In Guiana, the Ancien Regime dreamed of establishing a free, White colony, the first Caribbean colony to function without slavery. Cayenne was to be the last, “new” France, a bulwark against the overwhelming British domination of North America. History, however, has only retained the vagaries of a State affair that inextr…
Kourou
On July 8, 1763, Préfontaine returned to Cayenne. The new settlement had not yet been created, but the “old” one, as Choiseul called it, was not yet dead. It intended to put up a fight against the notorious incom- petence of several key figures and against the rumored disease that was greatly feared — everyone still vividly remembered the thousands of French deaths during the siege of Havana. D’Orvilliers withdrew, using failing health as his exc…
Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
The Americas
Choiseul had a taste for women and secrets. On February 18, 1763, with the ink barely dry on the Treaty of Paris, Guiana’s new governor was proclaimed: chevalier Etienne Turgot. On March 6, in Cayenne, conster- nation reigned as Morisse and Behague, who had both left France a year earlier, discovered with amazement the minister’s plans, plans which no longer included them.1 Choiseul had worked behind the scenes, keeping his secret well.2
Passengers to the West . De Coblenz à Kourou
En 1763, une entreprise coloniale “l’expédition de Kourou” a pour but de peupler la Guyane française. L’objectif est clairement de faire de cette ultime colonie en terre continentale un contre point à la domination britannique en Amérique du Nord. Cet objectif de revanche se lit particulièrement à travers le nombre des colons recrutés, quasi équivalent à la population de New York à la même époque. Les critères de recrutement font donc apparaître …
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Passengers to the West . De Coblenz à Kourou
En 1763, une entreprise coloniale “l’expédition de Kourou” a pour but de peupler la Guyane française. L’objectif est clairement de faire de cette ultime colonie en terre continentale un contre point à la domination britannique en Amérique du Nord. Cet objectif de revanche se lit particulièrement à travers le nombre des colons recrutés, quasi équivalent à la population de New York à la même époque. Les critères de recrutement font donc apparaître …
Forces Present
The Jesuits arrived in Guiana in 1666 to evangelize the Indians. The 104 priests sent to Guiana over the next century honored their religious responsibilities while also becoming successful colonial landowners. 2 Exploration was another of their notable activities, as illustrated by the achievements of their most experienced explorers: Fathers Grillet and Bechamel. These two traveled up the La Comté River in 1674, implementing the principle of su…
White Colony
What does a colony look like? What can be built there? All of France was caught up with these questions in the eighteenth century. In 1763, shopkeepers, intellectuals, and politicians were all convinced that their present and perhaps even their future had become Atlantic. Choiseul, Préfontaine, and Turgot were all carried by the same impe- tus towards the new colony of Cayenne. Three questions defined Turgot’s approach to the colony. What is the …
Conclusion
Dramatic failure. Colonial tragedy. Health disaster. There is no shortage of descriptions to stigmatize the Kourou expedition. In Guiana, the Ancien Regime dreamed of establishing a free, White colony, the first Caribbean colony to function without slavery. Cayenne was to be the last, “new” France, a bulwark against the overwhelming British domination of North America. History, however, has only retained the vagaries of a State affair that inextr…
Kourou
On July 8, 1763, Préfontaine returned to Cayenne. The new settlement had not yet been created, but the “old” one, as Choiseul called it, was not yet dead. It intended to put up a fight against the notorious incom- petence of several key figures and against the rumored disease that was greatly feared — everyone still vividly remembered the thousands of French deaths during the siege of Havana. D’Orvilliers withdrew, using failing health as his exc…
Kourou and the Struggle for a French America
The Americas
Choiseul had a taste for women and secrets. On February 18, 1763, with the ink barely dry on the Treaty of Paris, Guiana’s new governor was proclaimed: chevalier Etienne Turgot. On March 6, in Cayenne, conster- nation reigned as Morisse and Behague, who had both left France a year earlier, discovered with amazement the minister’s plans, plans which no longer included them.1 Choiseul had worked behind the scenes, keeping his secret well.2
Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)