Document : 1784-01-00

Références / localisation du document

AGI, Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, legajo 197, fo. 951, 960, 966, 967, 973 // Carl A. Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

Date(s)

1784-01-00

Résumé et contenu

Terrio fait le tour de la Bretagne pour avertir les Acadiens de ce que le projet de Louisiane est accepté par le gouvernement espagnol. C'est à cette occasion qu'il est attaqué par certains de ses congénères.

Notes

notes de Brasseaux : "Terrio personnally toured Brittany, urging the Acadian residents to join the anticipated migration. (January 1784)"

"The indefatigable Terrio's labors were crowned with mixed results. A small but vocal minority viewed the colonization project as a ploy to discontinue their meager dole. In Nantes, Terrio was "cursed by one, insulted by another, and threatened with murder by a third". Words were translated into action in other Acadian communities. At an inn located in an unidentified French seaport, he was accosted by three Acadian opponents of emigration. A discussion of the Louisiana colonization project soon deteriorated into a shouting match, and according to Terrio, "the most furious of the three... assaulted me like a desperado, struck me several times, and would undoubtedly have killed me if some friendly Acadians, who took his knife away, had not intervened".

Mots-clés

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Numéro de document

002163