T. Wood Clarke — Émigrés in the Wilderness

1941

French aristocrats fled the Revolution for a wilderness in upstate New York — this is their mostly forgotten story.

T. Wood Clarke's 1941 history follows French émigrés, including James Le Ray de Chaumont, who settled and shaped what would become northern New York — later home, briefly, to the exiled Bonapartists. A literal, unglamorous version of the French-American bridge this whole house is built on.

Cloth, octavo. Frayed head and tail of spine, else sound.