Guide to Documents Relating to French and British North America in ...

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10 See, for one, the example of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, who refers to his posting in Canada as
a "commission que je n'avois ni desiree ni demandee" ("Journal du Marquis de Montcalm durant
ses campagnes en Canada de 1756 a 1759," in Henri-Raymond Casgrain, ed., Collection des
manuscrits du Marechal de Levis, VII, Quebec: L.-J. Demers, 1985, p. 18).
11 See the example of Louisbourg, conquered in 1745 by an American expedition and restored to
the French in 1748 by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Eccles, France in America, Toronto:
Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1972, p. 177). Or the abandonment of the loyalist Iroquois of the
American Revolution in the Treaty of Paris of 1783 (Barbara Graymont, The Iroquois in the
American Revolution, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1972, pp. 2-3, 104-106).
12 See the striking example of Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert (Henry Ingram
Priestley, France Overseas through the Old Regime. A Study of European Expansion, New York:
D. Appleton-Century, 1939, pp. 146-157; Eccles, Canada under Louis XIV, p. 252 and passim;
Philip P. Boucher, "Comment se forme un ministre colonial: l'initiation de Colbert, 1651-1664,"
Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique fran~aise, XXXVII, 3 [December 1983]. pp. 431-452).
13 Eccles, France in America, pp. 193-194,208; George F.G. Stanley, New France. The Last Phase,
1744-1760, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968, p. 270.
14 Davies, North Atlantic World, pp. 240-245; Christie, Wars and Revolutions. Britain, 1760-1815,
London: Edward Arnold, 1982, p. 86; Christie, Crisis of Empire, pp. 39-54, 65, 112; Greene,
"Uneasy Connection," pp. 63-65; Tiziano Bonazzi, ed., La rivoluzione americana, Bologna: 11
Mulino, 1977, p. 38. On William Pitt's Atlantic strategy, see Walter L. Dorn, Competition for
Empire, 1740-1763, New York: Harper & Row, 1940, p. 357; Eccles, France in America, p. 194;
Guy Fregault, La guerre de la conquete, 1754-1760, Montreal: Fides, 1955, pp. 162-163.
15 Richard Hofstadter, America at 1750. A Social Portrait, New York: Random House, 1973, pp.
3-5 [1st. ed.: 1971]; Christie, Crisis of Empire, pp. 112-113.
16 [Mario Alberizzi] to Giulio Rospigliosi, [Rome], 25 June 1661, Lettere 78.
17 Propaganda's internal memorandum, [Rome, 12 Sep. 1667], SOCG 225.
18 Although his sources have never been properly investigated, the only exception to this was
Niccolb Forteguerri, who will be discussed later. See also Fortunato Margiotti, "La dotazione
libraria dei cardinali di Propaganda Fide nel1700," Euntes Docete. Commentaria Urbaniana, XXI
(1968), pp. 367-409. Piero Del Negro has listed all works dealing with Canada that were
published in Italy prior to 1800 (Piero Del Negro, "Per una bibliografia italo-canadese. 11Canada
nella publicistica italiana dell'eal moderna," in Luca Codignola, ed., Canadiana. Problemi di
storia canadese, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1983, pp. 13-31; see also Del Negro, "Saggio di una
bibliogiafia delle opere relative agli Stati Uniti apparse in Italia ne1 Settecento," in Giorgio Spini
et al.,eds., Italia e America dal Settecento all'eta dell'imperialismo, Venice: Marsilio Editori,
1976, pp. 149-156). Roman periodical literature has never been investigated with regard to North
America (see Valerio Castronovo and Nicola Tranfaglia, eds., La stampa italiana 001500 all'800,
Bari: Laterza, 1976). On language problems, see Chadwick, Popes and European Revolution,
p. 326. Chadwick points out, "The monsignori of the Curia were notorious for their belief that
Rome was the centre of the world and that nothing outside Rome mattered." (id., p. 155)
19 Pierre-Herman Dosquet to Propaganda, [1729], SOCG 488.