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Title
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Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle
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translation of
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Franquelin's map of Louisiana
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Date
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1684
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Bibliographic Citation
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Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis. 1684. Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle. Map. Library of Congress. https://lccn.loc.gov/2001620469, accessed August 29, 2024.
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annotates
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• Depicts portions of North America and Central America.
• "Reduced facsimile of MS. copy (made in Paris for Francis Parkman), now in the Library of Harvard University. The original, formerly in the Archives de la Marine, Paris, has been lost."
• From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 63, frontispiece. Franquelin, a trader, served as Nouvelle France's first cartographer. He created this map based on La Salle's Mississippi River voyages. The Mobile River is mapped but not labeled. The towns of "Achusse" and "Tascalus" are noted in the vicinity of Mobile Bay/River. "Tchacta" towns are depicted west of the "Baye du St Esprit" (Pensacola Bay).
• In the lands north of the Mobile River and east of the "Tchacta," the map label translates as "There are here a number of savages and villages whose names are not known."
