When was antoine crozat born

Family relationships. Period of activity - Stuffmann, 'Les tableaux de la collection de Pierre Crozat. Wildenstein B. Scott, 'Pierre Crozat. Schatborn, 'Van Rembrandt tot Crozat. Vroege verzamelingen van tekeningen van Rembrandt', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 32 , p. Raux, 'From Mariette to Joullain. Feigenbaum, I. Reist eds. External links Lugt Marques de Collections no. Creation date: ; Last modified date: Authorities also had recourse to forced emigration, profiting from the regency's banishment policy, intended to rid France of undesirables.

Some 1, illicit salt merchants, tobacco smugglers, deserters, and beggars, as well as young women "of questionable reputation," were sent to Louisiana. In the French imagination, the colony was henceforth equated with a land of deportation. This migratory movement--voluntary or involuntary--raised the original European population German as well as French of lower Louisiana to reach 1, persons in The Company of the West, renamed the Company of the Indies in when it annexed several other overseas firms the Senegal, East Indies, and China companies, for example , sought to create a slave-based plantation colony.

Although the slave trade all but ended after , between and some 6, Africans two-thirds of whom were natives of the Senegambia region were deported to Louisiana. Henceforth, the number of slaves increased mostly through natural increase, leading to the formation of an important Afro-Creole community.

In the early s the servile population of lower Louisiana increased to about 4, slaves, of whom two-thirds were born in the colony. The number "free blacks" remained limited, with barely such persons at the end of the French regime, 80 percent ofwhom were Euro-African ancestry. Louisiana was far from attaining the economic success of the Caribbean's sugar islands. Attempts to cultivate cotton, sugarcane, and mulberry trees used in silk production failed. Indigo and tobacco, the only products hardy enough to be exported, had little value.

In the Company, weakened by the Natchez uprising of , renounced its privilege and the colony was placed under royal control the following year. Louisiana became little more than the crown's geopolitical linchpin--intended to block the territorial expansion of British settlements. Associated documents :.