Excerpt from A History of Louisiana, Vol. 1 of 4: Early Explorers and the Domination of the French, 1512 1768 Interest of the papers of colonial times - Papers signed by Lafreniere and Foucault - A lawsuit and a petition in 1769 Hunting cattle on the Gentilly coast - Establishment of the cabildo - The governor and the commandants - The alcaldes and the escribano - Case of the slave Bautista - Military life in 1795 - Petition from a lady in l768 - Louison, the Indian, freed from slavery - Contract with the Acadians - Father Dagobert's induction into office - A petition from the inhabi tants of Cabaha-noce - Suit against the memory of a sup posed self - homicide - Petition in 1769 about a carriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."