Architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire : state, Church, and society, 1604-1830 /

"Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and...

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Main Author: Bailey, Gauvin A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]
Series:McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 1
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