Talk with Guillaume Teasdale - Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815

River Raisin National Battlefield Park, 333 N. Dixie Highway, Monroe, MI
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Join Guillaume Teasdale for a talk on his new book, Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815.

The event is presented by River Raisin National Battlefield Park and Friends of the River Raisin.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Founded by French military entrepreneur Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac in 1701, colonial Detroit was occupied by thousands of French settlers who established deep roots on both sides of the river. The city's unmistakable French past, however, has been long neglected in the historiography of New France and French North America. Exploring the French colonial presence in Detroit, from its establishment to its dissolution in the early nineteenth century, Fruits of Perseverance explains how a society similar to the rural settlements of the Saint Lawrence valley developed in an isolated place and how it survived well beyond the fall of New France.

Guillaume Teasdale is assistant professor of history and director of the Detroit River Border Region Digital History Project at the University of Windsor.