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Complete Works of Jean Delanglez, S.J.


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This page contains the collected works of Jean Delanglez, a Jesuit priest who published extensively on the history of French Louisiana. The list of titles below is drawn from the bibliography in Mildred Mott Wedel's A Jean DeLanglez, S.J., Anthology (Garland Publishing, 1985), pp. xi-xiii [IA].

A brief biography of Delanglez can be found in Jerome V. Jacobsen's (1949) "Jean Delanglez -- In Memoriam," Mid-America 31:209-212 [IA].

Most of these titles can be viewed on the web sites of the Internet Archive (IA), Hathi Trust (HT), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales Québec (BANQ), or Érudit (Érudit).
 



  • 1934: "The Natchez Massacre and Governor Perier." Louisiana Historical Quarterly 17:631-641. [HT] [PDF]
     
  • 1935: "French Bishop for Louisiana (1722-1763)." Catholic Historical Review 20:411-419. [JSTOR]
     
  • 1935: The French Jesuits in Lower Louisiana (1700-1763). Studies in American Church History 21. Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. [Reprinted 1974, AMS Press, New York.] [HT]
     
  • 1937: "A Louisiana Poet-Historian: Dumont dit Montigny." Mid-America 19:31-49. [PDF]
     
  • 1937: "Documents: M.le Maire on Louisiana." Mid-America 19:124-154. [PDF]
     
  • 1937: "La Salle, 1669-1673" (2 parts). Mid-America 19:197-216, 237-53. [PDF, part 1] [PDF, part 2]
     
  • 1938: "Astronomical Expedition to Lower California: The Transit of Venus of 1769." Mid-America 20:284-291. [IA]
     
  • 1938: Some La Salle Journeys. Institute of Jesuit History, Chicago. [IA] [HT]
     
  • 1938: The Journal of Jean Cavelier. The Account of a Survivor of La Salle's Texas Expedition, 1684-88. Institute of Jesuit History, Chicago. [IA]
     
  • 1939: "Hennepin's Voyage to the Gulf of Mexico, 1680." Mid-America 21:32-81. [IA]
     
  • 1939: "Documents: Tonti Letters." Mid-America 21:209-238. [IA]
     
  • 1939: "Mlle. de Roybon d'Allonne: La Salle's Fiancee?" Mid-America 21:298-313. [IA]
     
  • 1939: Frontenac and the Jesuits. Institute of Jesuit History, Chicago. [IA] [HT]
     
  • 1940: "La Salle's Expedition of 1682." Mid-America 22:3-37. [IA]
     
  • 1940: "La Salle's Fiancee: A Post-script." Mid-America 22:59-61. [IA]
     
  • 1940: "A Calendar of La Salle's Travels, 1643-1683." Mid-America 22:278-305. [IA]
     
  • 1941: Hennepin's Description of Louisiana: A Critical Essay. Institute of Jesuit History, Chicago. [IA]
     
  • 1943: "Franquelin, Mapmaker." Mid-America 25:29-74. [IA]
     
  • 1943: "Documents: The Authorship of the Journal of Jean Cavelier." Mid-America 25:220-223. [IA]
     
  • 1943: "Documents: The Sources of the Delisle Map of America, 1703." Mid-America 25:275-298. [IA]
     
  • 1943: "El Rio del Espiritu Santo" (2 parts). Mid-America 25:189-219, 231-254. [IA, part 1] [IA, part 2]
     
  • 1944: "Cadillac's Early Years in America." Mid-America 26:3-39. [IA]
     
  • 1944: "Claude Dablon, S.J., 1619-1697." Mid-America 26:91-110. [IA]
     
  • 1944: "Last Voyages and Death of Louis Jolliet." Rapport de l'Archiviste de la Province de Quebec pour 1943-1944, pp. 149-206. [BANQ]
     
  • 1944: "The Voyage of Louis Jolliet to Hudson Bay in 1679." Mid-America 26:221-250. [IA]
     
  • 1944: "The Voyages of Tonti in North America, 1678-1704." Mid-America 26:255-300. [IA]
     
  • 1944: "The 1674 Account of the Discovery of the Mississippi." Mid-America 26:301-324. [IA]
     
  • 1945: "Louis Jolliet. Early Years: 1645-1674." Mid-America 27:3-29. [IA]
     
  • 1945: "Marquette's Autograph Map of the Mississippi River." Mid-America 27:30-53. [IA]
     
  • 1945: "Louis Jolliet. The Middle Years: 1674-1686." Mid-America 27:67-96. [IA]
     
  • 1945: "Antoine Laumet, Alias Cadillac, Commandant at Michilmackinac: 1694-1697" (3 parts). Mid-America 27:108-132, 188-216, 232-256. [IA, part 1] [IA, part 2] [IA, part 3]
     
  • 1945: "The Discovery of the Mississippi. Primary Sources." Mid-America 27:219-231. [IA]
     
  • 1945: El Rio Espiritu Santo, An Essay on the Cartography of the Gulf Coast and the Adjacent Territory during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Monograph Series 21. U.S. Catholic Historical Society, New York. [HT]
     
  • 1946: A Guide to Historical Method by G.J. Garraghan. Edited and completed by J. Delanglez. Fordham University Press, New York. [Reprinted 1974.] [HT]
     
  • 1946: "The Discovery of the Mississippi. Secondary Sources." Mid-America 28:3-22. [IA]
     
  • 1946: "The Journal of Pierre Vitry, S.J." Mid-America 28:23-59. [Reprinted in Louisiana Studies 3:250-309, 1964.] [IA]
     
  • 1946: "The Jolliett Lost Map of the Mississippi." Mid-America 28:67-144. [IA]
     
  • 1946: "The 'Recit des voyages et des decouvertes du Pere Jacques Marquette'" (2 parts). Mid-America 28:173-194, 211-258. [IA, part 1] [IA, part 2]
     
  • 1947-1948: "A Mirage: The Sea of the West." Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique française 1:346-381, 541-568. [Érudit, part 1] [Érudit, part 2]
     
  • 1948: "The Genesis and Building of Detroit." Mid-America 30:75-104. [IA]
     
  • 1948: "Cadillac at Detroit." Mid-America 30:152-176. [IA]
     
  • 1948: "'The First Establishment of the Faith in New France,' Chapters XXI-XXV." Mid-America 30:187-214. [IA]
     
  • 1948: Life and Voyages of Louis Jolliet (1645-1700). Institute of Jesuit History, Chicago. [IA]
     
  • 1948-1949: "The Cartography of the Mississippi" (2 parts). Mid-America 30:257-284; 31:29-52. [IA, part 1] [IA, part 2]
     
  • 1949: "Le Reverend Pere Jacques Marquette, S.J., etait-il Pretre?" (2 parts). Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique française 2:581-583; 3:73-74. [Érudit, part 1] [Érudit, part 2]
     
  • 1949-1950: "Louisiana in 1717: Memoire sur la Louisiane pour estre presenre, avec la carte de ce pais, au Conseil Souverain de Marine, par F. le Maire". Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique française 3:94-110, 256-269, 423-446. [Érudit, part 1] [Érudit, part 2] [Érudit, part 3]
     
  • 1950: "Cadillac, Proprietor of Detroit" (2 parts). Mid-America 32:155-188, 226-258. [IA, part 1] [IA, part 2]
     
  • 1950: Louis Jolliet, vie et voyages (1645-1700). Translated into French by the author. Les Etudes de l'Institut d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise, Montreal. [BANQ catalog]
     
  • 1951: "Cadillac's Last Years." Mid-America 33:3-42. [IA]