Note 89 — Chapter VI
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Le Page Du Pratz went to Louisiana in 1718 with a colony of eight hundred men sent out by John Law’s West India Company. He was a planter there for sixteen years, and travelled extensively through the territory, being overseer of the public plantations under the Company, also after the crown resumed control. The French original of his History of Louisiana appeared in 1758, being Englished and published in London in 1763; second edition 1764.—Ed.