Phrasebooks for European Travellers in Eighteenth-Century North America

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The figure of the interpreter is eloquently placed at the centre of an illustration depicting the Fort Frontenac where the governor of Nouvelle France, La Barre, negotiated a peace with the Iroquois following a military expedition by the French in 1684. From Lahontan, Nouveaux voyages, I, “Lettre VII” (1703). Copy at Bibliothèque nationale de France via Gallica. Non known restriction for scholarly use. This paper explores the vocabularies of Native American languages published as part ...