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First-Year Seminar Lecture Series 2009 Nicole Vaget Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French

First-Year Seminar Lecture Series 2009 Nicole Vaget Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French Connecting American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. 1776: American Revolution people’s victory over British colonial rules 1789: French Revolution people’s victory over absolute monarchy

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First-Year Seminar Lecture Series 2009 Nicole Vaget Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French

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  1. First-Year Seminar Lecture Series 2009 • Nicole Vaget • Reverend Joseph Paradis Professor of French • Connecting American, French, and Haitian Revolutions

  2. 1776: American Revolutionpeople’s victory over British colonial rules 1789: French Revolutionpeople’s victory over absolute monarchy 1804: Haitian RevolutionAfrican slaves’victory over French colonial rules

  3. Lettres de Tourville(1777 - 1783)officier au régiment du Gatinais au Cap à son père, lieutenant-colonel d’infanterieBibliothèque Nationale, ParisFR Nouvelles Acquisitions 15766Mélanges littéraires et historiques XVIIIème siècleF.68-143Charles Bertin Gaston Chapuis de Tourville (1740-1809) was made colonel of his regiment Royal-Auvergne in 1791, and became divisional general during the French revolution

  4. Detail of the Siege of Yorktown by Louis-Nicholas van Blarenberghe

  5. Franklin reception at the court of France, 1778

  6. Marquis De Lafayette with his commander in chief, General George Washington, at Valley Forge (1777-78)

  7. Saintonge regiment Soissonnais regiment Boubonnais regiment Royal Deux-Ponts regiment Flags of 4 line regiments that landed with Rochambeau at Newport in 1780 and participated in the Yorktown campaign • Washington welcomes le comte de Rochambeau in 1780

  8. French battleships at the battle of the Virginia Capes, September 1781 La ville de Paris, flagship of De Grasse L’Auguste, flagship of De Bougainville François Joseph Paul De Grasse (1722-1788)

  9. Virginia coast and Chesapeake bay General Washington hears that admiral De Grasse's fleet has just arrived in the Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeak bay British Fleet Yorktown French Fleet James river

  10. French fleet of admiral De Grasse off the coast of Virginia

  11. Cornwallis’ camp • Overview of the battle of Yorktown by Siméon Fort Rochambeau’s troups la Fayette’s troups

  12. Soldier in Tourville’s regiment du Gâtinais from left to right - well organized French regiments - French artillery - American artillery - American regiments - American infantry and militia with la Fayette

  13. from a contemporary graphic novel by Gérald Forton French regiments executing their night attack against British Redoubt 9 on October 14, 1781 painting by Onfroy de Breville -circa 1900 For its show of skill and heroism, fleurs de lys, insignia of the French king, were added to the flag of the Gatinais regiment and renamed Royal Auvergne 2 French regiments stormed British Redoubt 9 Royal Deux-Ponts and Gâtinais

  14. De Grasse Major General Ben Lincoln other French officers Rochambeau Washington LaFayette Cornwallis’ representative Surrender of the British at Yorktown by John Trumbull

  15. The French part of Saint Domingue, later called Haïti

  16. The mulatto girl (1764)by Agostino Brunias

  17. Slave trade in the 18th Century City map of Cap-Français on the Island of Saint-Domingue, 1779

  18. Marie-Josephe Rose Tascher De La Pagerie aristocrat and creole from Martinique married to Napoleon Bonaparte

  19. Soldier and runaway slaveby John Gabriel Stedman

  20. An indigo plantation in Saint-Domingue in the 18th Century from L’Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert

  21. French troups storming the hideout of runaway slaves

  22. Toussaint L’ouvertureleader of the Haitian revolution “the slave who defeated Napoléon”

  23. Cap Français burning on June 21, 1793

  24. 1794 the 1st French republic abolishes slavery In 1793, Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave, is the first black deputy to take a seat in the National Convention in Paris

  25. The national coat of arms of Haiti is composed of two cannons,a palm tree with the French Revolution liberty cap on top, and the watch word Union makes might.

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