“The Significance of the French Experience in North America” is the theme of a symposium being held Friday-Saturday, Sept. 11-12 at Yale. This is the eighth annual symposium sponsored by Howard R.

Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America. by Philip Marchand. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, born 1643 in Rouen, France, God rest his weary bones, wherever they are, may ...