Claude-François-Adrien Lezay-Marnésia, Lettres écrites des rives de l'Ohio [Letters written from the banks of the Ohio]

Benjamin Hoffmann (Ohio State University)

Ed. by Jenny Mander, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.04: French Writing and Culture: Eighteenth-Century and the Enlightenment, 1700-1800.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge), Síofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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First circulation or publication 1800

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France (Country of Origin)

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Non-Fiction
- Letter(s)

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Determining the genre to which Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia’s

Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio

[

Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio

] belong is no easy task. At first glance, this collection of three letters sent by Lezay-Marnésia to his friend, Stanislas de Boufflers, to the famous Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and to his eldest son, Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, seems to be an historical document where the author discusses the real events he witnessed while traveling in the United States between the summer of 1791 and the spring of 1792, when he attempted to build in present-day Ohio a colony for French emigrants fleeing the Revolution. Nevertheless, the

Letters

are the work of a man of letters, a poet, a contributor to the

Encyclopédie

of Diderot and…

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Citation: Hoffmann, Benjamin. "Lettres écrites des rives de l'Ohio". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35519, accessed 24 November 2024.]

Claude-François-Adrien Lezay-Marnésia, Lettres écrites des rives de l'Ohio [Letters written from the banks of the Ohio]

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