Note 23 — Chapter I
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In 1697 the Sieur de Louvigny wrote, asking to complete La Salle’s discoveries and invade Mexico from Texas (Lettre de M. de Louvigny, 14 Oct. 1697). In an unpublished memoir of the year 1700, the seizure of the Mexican mines is given as one of the motives of the colonization of Louisiana. Parkman’s La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, p. 327, note. The memorial of Louvigny is given in Margry, iv. 9; that of Argoud in Margry, iv. 19.