Natchez: the word evokes Chateaubriand who, through his novels -
Atala
,
René
and of course
Les Natchez
-, claimed to depict the customs of a population which was very close to the French at a time when they were colonizing Louisiana.
From friendship to hatred, there is sometimes only one step, which the natives took abruptly on November 28, 1729 by killing by surprise nearly 250 men and women living south of the Mississippi.
How did these warriors who, a few hours earlier, were still so cordial, turn into a horde of massacrers, decapitating, scalping and torturing their victims?
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With
Les Natchez,
historian and researcher Gilles Havard gives us a fascinating investigation.
A specialist in French America, to which he has devoted several essays, he has not contented himself with reconstructing the Franco-Natchez tragedy, in particular these reprisals which almost caused the disappearance of a population whose survivors found refuge among the Cherokees and the Creeks…
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