Beyond the Ocean
Beyond the Ocean, Chris HodsonAll things French Atlantic, with Brett Rushforth and Chris Hodson.
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Get Ready With Me!
First published in 1656 and reprinted many times during the next few decades, Marie Meurdrac’s La chimie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames (Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies) delivered some pretty hot seventeenth-...
Little Dieppes Everywhere
Nicolas Villault de Bellefond, Le cap de Monté, watercolor, c. 1668. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The Search for Petit Dieppe
In a widely-read 1669 publication dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Nicolas Villault de Bellefond cla...
Before (and after) the Code Noir
Condemning the Code Noir
Last Thursday, the French National Assembly voted 254-0 to repeal the Code Noir, the edict issued in 1685 by Louis XIV to govern slavery in France's overseas colonies. For over 150 years, the Code provided the...
Reese Witherspoon's French Atlantic
The arrival of the first French colonists in Canada in 1542. Nicolas Vallard, Enssuyt le regime et gouvernement du soleil (Dieppe, 1547). HM 29. The Huntington.
In Degrees of the French Atlantic, as in Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Reese Wither...
The Only Harmless Great Thing
Guillaume Le Testu, Cosmographie universelle, 1555. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
In his 1601 poem “The Progress of the Soul,” John Donne wrote a few lines inspired by an elephant he saw on display at the Tower of London.
Natures gre...
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We're Brett Rushforth and Chris Hodson. We spent 17 years writing a book on the French Atlantic and somehow stayed friends. Here to write about collaboration, research, storytelling, and the legacies of early modern empire.
Historian, Author, Francophile
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