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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       THE FRENCH IN THE HEART OF AMERICA

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       CHAPTER XVII

       CHAPTER XVIII

       CHAPTER XIX

       EPILOGUE

PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      Most of what is here written was spoken many months ago in the Amphithéâtre Richelieu of the Sorbonne, in Paris, and some of it in Lille, Nancy, Dijon, Lyons, Grenoble, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Poitiers, Rennes, and Caen; and all of it was in the American publisher's hands before the great war came, effacing, with its nearer adventures, perils, sufferings, and anxieties, the dim memories of the days when the French pioneers were out in the Mississippi Valley, "The Heart of America."

      As it was spoken, the purpose was to freshen and brighten for the French the memory of what some of them had seemingly wished to forget and to visualize to them the vigorous, hopeful, achieving life that is passing before that background of Gallic venturing and praying. It was planned also to publish the book simultaneously in France; and, less than a week before the then undreamed-of war, the manuscript was carried for that purpose to Paris and left for translation in the hands of Madame Boutroux, the wife of the beloved and eminent Émile Boutroux, head of the Fondation Thiers, and sister of the illustrious Henri Poincaré. But wounded soldiers soon came to fill the chambers of the scholars there, and the wife and mother has had to give all her thought to those who have hazarded their all for the France that is.

      But it was my hope that what was spoken in Paris might some day be read in America, and particularly in that valley which the French evoked from the unknown, that those who now live there might know before what a valorous background they are passing, though I can tell them less of it than they will learn from the Homeric Parkman, if they will but read his immortal story.

      My first debt is to him; but I must include with him many who made their contributions to these pages as I wrote them in Paris. The quotation- marks, diligent and faithful as they have tried to be, have, I fear, not reached all who have assisted, but my gratitude extends to every source of fact and to every guide of opinion along the way, from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, even if I have not in every instance known or remembered his name.

      As without Parkman's long labors I could not have prepared these chapters, so without the occasion furnished by the Hyde Foundation and the nomination made by the President of Harvard University to the exchange lectureship, I should not have undertaken this delightful filial task. The readers' enjoyment and profit of the result will not be the full measure of my gratitude to Mr. James H. Hyde, the author of the Foundation, to President Lowell, and to him whose confidence in me persuaded me to it. But I hope these enjoyments and profits will add something to what I cannot adequately express.

      That what was written could, in the midst of official duties, be prepared for the press is due largely to the patient, verifying, proof-reading labors of Mr. Frank L. Tolman, my young associate in the State Library.

      The title of this book (appearing first as the general title for some of these chapters in Scribner's Magazine in 1912) has a purely geographical connotation. But I advise the reader, in these days of bitterness, to go no further if he carry any hatred in his heart.

      JOHN FINLEY.

       STATE EDUCATION BUILDING, ALBANY, N. Y.

       Washington's Birthday, 1915.

      I. INTRODUCTION

      II. FROM LABRADOR TO THE LAKES

      III. THE PATHS OF THE GRAY FRIARS AND BLACK GOWNS

      IV. FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE GULF

      V. THE RIVER COLBERT: A COURSE AND SCENE OF EMPIRE

      VI. THE PASSING OF NEW FRANCE AND THE DREAM OF ITS REVIVAL

      VII. THE PEOPLING OF THE WILDERNESS

      VIII. THE PARCELLING OF THE DOMAIN

      IX. IN THE TRAILS OF THE COUREURS DE BOIS

      X. IN THE WAKE OF THE "GRIFFIN"

      XI WESTERN CITIES THAT HAVE SPRUNG FROM FRENCH FORTS

      XII. WESTERN TOWNS AND CITIES THAT HAVE SPRUNG FROM FRENCH PORTAGE PATHS

      XIII. FROM LA SALLE TO LINCOLN

      XIV. THE VALLEY OF THE NEW DEMOCRACY

      XV. WASHINGTON: THE UNION OF THE EASTERN AND THE WESTERN WATERS

      XVI. THE PRODUCERS

      XVII. THE THOUGHT OF TO-MORROW

      XVIII.

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