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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
ntime, he claimed the territory for France, and Le Clerq, c. XXIII. gave it the name of Louisiana. The year of the descent has been unnecessarily made a question; its accomplishment was known in Paris before the end of 1682. This was the period of the proudest successes and largest ambition of Louis XIV. La Salle will return, it was said, to give to the court an ample account of the terrestrial paradise of America;—there the king will at once call into being a flourishing empire. And, 1683. May 12. in fact, La Salle, remaining in the west till his exclu- Nov. La Hontan. sive privilege had expired, returned to Quebec to embark for France. Colbert, whose genius had awakened a national spirit in behalf of French industry, and who yet had rested his system of commerce and manufactures on no firmer basis than that of monopoly, was no more; but Seignelay, his son, the minister for maritime affairs, listened confidingly to the expected messenger from the land which was regarded wi