Excerpt from The French in America, 1520-1880<br><br>Yet this exhibition surveys a wider field of history! Than that of the settlers of Detroit or even of New France. It includes the Huguenots who settled in the thirteen colonies and who played a part out of all proportion to their small numbers in the formation of our nation. It touches on the intellectual relationships of the eighteenth century the French authors for whom America was an exotic dream, the philosophers whose liberal thought was translated by Jefferson into a program of action, the scientists who became members of the youthful American Philosophical Society, as well as the officers of the armed forces of France whose intervention swung the balance of the War for Independence in favor of the colonies.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.