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MUTINOUS WOMEN
How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
From distinguished scholar Joan DeJean, the astonishing story of the women shipped in chains from France to the New World in 1719.
The unique and little-known history of the group of women convicts who were transported from France to Louisiana in 1719, when the Gulf Coast settlement was just a log fort and a handful of huts. These remarkable women, many of whom were guilty only of being strong-willed and independent, were sent in chains to a wild frontier, and somehow made a home in the new world, becoming the legendary foremothers of a good part of the Gulf Coast's colonial population.
JOAN DEJEAN is Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Yale and Princeton. She is the author of eleven books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including most recently How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City (2014); The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began (2009); and The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour (2005).
JOAN DEJEAN is Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Yale and Princeton. She is the author of eleven books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including most recently How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City (2014); The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began (2009); and The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour (2005).
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