Les Français d’Amérique / French In America

Calendar Photos and Texts from 1985 to 2002

Project of: Virgil Benoit, Red Lake Falls, Minnesota

Planning & Execution by: Marie-Reine Mikesell, Chicago, Illinois


Dessin de Charles E. Beaudet, Michigan

Alliance Franco-Américaine du Midwest (AFAM)

Conseil pour le Développement du Français en Louisiane (CODOFIL)

Société Historique Franco-Américaine de la Nouvelle-Angleterre (SHFA)


1985 Cover Tall Ship at Quebec for 450th Anniversary of Jacques Cartier discovery in 1534
1985 Jan Le Manoir de Limoelou - Estate of Jacques Cartier
1985 Feb Mardi-Gras in Lafayette, Louisiana
1985 Mar "Friendship Quilt" - The Society of Two Worlds, Vermont
1985 Apr House of Albert Thibeau of Old Mines, Missouri
1985 May Departure of Joliet & Marquette from St Ignace by Louis Tiffany
1985 Jun Frenchville, Maine
1985 Jul Jean Nicolet Memorial at Green Bay, Wisconsin
1985 Aug The Flag of New France at Fort Michilimakinac (Michigan) at the 1983 Conference (John was there)
1985 Sep The Evangeline Oak at St Martinville, Louisiana
1985 Oct Western Buffalo Sculpture by Bennett Brien, Metis of Turtle Mountains, North Dakota
1985 Nov Amoskeag Mills at Manchester, New Hampshire
1985 Dec French Louisiana on Stage
1986 Cover "The Neptune Theater" play written by Marc Lescarbot
1986 Jan Jacques Cartier's ship "La Grande Hermine"
1986 Feb United States Snow Sculpting Team at the Carnival of Quebec in 1983.
1986 Mar Church of the Precious Blood, Woonsocket, Rhode Island
1986 Apr Ferdinand Gagnon Monument, Manchester, New Hampshire
1986 May French Language Radio Broadcast of the "Four Seasons"
1986 Jun "La Verendrye and Aulneau Monument", St Boniface, Manitoba
1986 Jul Tippecanoe Ancient Fife and Drum Corps of West Lafayette, Indiana
1986 Aug "The Orion Chorale", Lowell, Massachusetts
1986 Sep "Evangeline" statue in St Martinville, Louisiana
1986 Oct "The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" on Bedloe Island, New York
1986 Nov "Louis XIV" monument at Place Royal, Quebec
1986 Dec "Louisiana Landscape", Lafayette, Louisiana
1987 Cover Sieur de La Salle in front of Louis XIV and Colbert at Versailles
1987 Jan New Year's Blessing for the Family of Gerard Menard
1987 Feb Monument to Maisonneuve at Neuville-Sur-Vanne, Champagne, France
1987 Mar Sugaring Time in Quebec
1987 Apr Monument to Father Pierre Gibault at Vincennes, Indiana
1987 May "French in Florida" 1564 painting by Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues
1987 Jun Monument to Father Jacques Marquette in Laon, Picardie, France
1987 Jul "Gold Rush", a Frenchman named Claude Chana discovers gold at Auburn, California
1987 Aug "Aioli Dinner", members of "The Order of New Iberia Gourmets" in Louisiana, painting by George Rodrigue
1987 Sep "Chapel of New Hope" in the Acadian Village in Lafayette, Louisiana
1987 Oct "Folk Art" by Adelard Cote
1987 Nov Monument to the 1837 Patriots at St Denis, Quebec
1987 Dec Sacajawea & Jean Baptiste Charbonneau at Bismark, North Dakota
1988 Cover Map of l'Amerique Septentrionale of 1688 by J. B. Franquelin
1988 Jan The Portage of Chicago
1988 Feb "Butchering Time" in Louisiana
1988 Mar "A Village in Gaspe" landscape painting by Marc Aurele Fortin
1988 Apr "The Seminary of Quebec"
1988 May Midwest Portion of 1688 Map by J. B. Franquelin
1988 Jun Feast of "La Saint-Jean" at Lowell, Massachusetts
1988 Jul "Fur Trade Canoes" at the Albany, New York Tricentennial in 1986
1988 Aug Monument Riel - Ritchot at St Norbert, Manitoba
1988 Sep Louisbourg, Ile Royale, Acadie (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)
1988 Oct Monument to La Verendrye at St Boniface, Manitoba
1988 Nov "Ellis Island Awards" at the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty
1988 Dec Christmas Eve Bonfires in Louisiana
1989 Cover Flags of the French Communities in North America
1989 Jan The Port of La Rochelle, France
1989 Feb Gateway Arch and St Louis Cathedral at St Louis, Missouri
1989 Mar Plaza After Rain, New York by Paul Cornoyer
1989 Apr Festival International of Louisiana - "Delphinale" folkloric group from Grenoble, France
1989 May "Arrival of the first Nuns in Quebec"
1989 Jun Fort Toulouse, Alabama 1714-1763
1989 Jul "Lady Liberty" on the Seine River at Grenelle Bridge in Paris, France
1989 Aug The Grave of Father Claude Jean Allouez, S. J. at Niles, Michigan
1989 Sep Monument to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet, astronomer and cartographer, at St Peter, Minnesota
1989 Oct Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, near Midland Ontario
1989 Nov Map of French Explorers of the West; Juchereau de Saint-Denis
1989 Dec The Church at Meobecq, France
1990 Cover "Fort Caroline, Florida", a water color painted by Jacques Le Moyne dit de Morgues
1990 Jan The 1812 Battlefield of Chalmette, Louisiana
1990 Feb "Snow", a painting by Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
1990 Mar "Felicite Motier" (1780 - 1873) at Portage des Sioux, Missouri
1990 Apr Fort Michilmakinac, Michigan; Charles Langlade weds my cousin Charlotte Bourassa on 12 Aug 1754
1990 May 1740 Map of the Ohio River in New France
1990 Jun Model of the ship "Breze" which brought the Carignan Regiment to Canada in 1665
1990 Jul "Chateau Gaillard in the Mist" by Alexis Jean Fournier
1990 Aug "Fort St Louis" de Chambly, Quebec; also called "Fort Chambly"
1990 Sep Monument called "Jean Ribault's Column" at Mayport, Florida
1990 Oct "Never Forget God nor France", inscription at Tourouvre, France
1990 Nov "Ustai Danza" or "Dance of the Water Skin" a Basque celebration at St Pierre & Miquelon
1990 Dec Chapelle des Ursulines in Quebec, by "Noel Levasseur", sculptor (1680 - 1740)
1991 Cover Architectural Plans of Washington, DC in 1791 created by Charles L'Enfant
1991 Jan Monument to Calixa Lavallee, the Composer of "O'Canada" the Canadian National Anthem
1991 Feb Monument to Francois Xavier Garneau at Quebec City
1991 Mar Map of Isle La Motte on Lake Champlain which was discovered by Samuel de Champlain
1991 Apr Crawfish Festival in Beaux Bridge, Louisiana
1991 May St Joan of Arc Chapel at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1991 Jun "Wolfes Cove" painting by Maurice Cullen
1991 Jul Monument to Jacques Cartier, the Discoverer of Canada, at Gaspe, Quebec
1991 Aug "The Apotheosis of Christopher Colombus", a painting by Napoleon Bourassa; my grgr uncle
1991 Sep Monument to Nicolas Martiau, a French Huguenot, at Yorktown, Virginia
1991 Oct Commemorative Ceremony at the French Cemetery at Yorktown, Virginia
1991 Nov Home of Pierre Menard, First Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, at Kaskaskia, Illinois
1991 Dec "Je Me Souviens" - "I remember" on the Quebec Parliament Building
1992 Cover Painting of Montreal, Quebec in 1768, eight years after the Conquest
1992 Jan "Beau Sejour" "Oak Alley Plantation Manor" 1839 at Vacherie, Louisiana owned by Jacques Roman
1992 Feb Map of the Great Lakes [Les Grands Lacs] in 1755 by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
1992 Mar "Mardi Gras" at Mamou, Louisiana
1992 Apr "Les Voyageurs" "Shooting the Rapids" Oil Painting by Frances Ann Hopkins about 1870
1992 May Monument to Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve at Montreal, Quebec
1992 Jun Monument to the Abenakis at Quebec City, Quebec
1992 Jul Monument to Samuel de Champlain and the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec City, Quebec
1992 Aug The Spirit of the Northwest Monument at Green Bay, Wisconsin
1992 Sep Chateau de Chavaniac, Auvergne, France; birthplace of the Marquis de La Fayette
1992 Oct LaFayette, Washington and Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia on October 14, 1781
1992 Nov "Les Ceintures Flechees" "The Flechee Belts" worn by Voyageurs
1992 Dec "Horse Racing in Winter" a painting by Clarence Gagnon in Toronto, Ontario
1993 Cover The La Verendrye Brothers Sighting the Rocky Mountains on January 1, 1743
1993 Jan Statue of the French King Louis XVI at Louisville, Kentucky
1993 Feb City Plan of New Orleans about 1721
1993 Mar Monument on La Verendry Hill at Pierre, South Dakota
1993 Apr The Cross of the Order of St Louis from the National Archives in Ottawa, Canada
1993 May The Cotton Office at New Orleans, Louisiana; oil painting by the artist Edgar Degas
1993 Jun The Main Gate of Fort de Chartres, Illinois
1993 Jul Monument to Samuel de Champlain at Isle La Motte, Vermont by Yours Truly
1993 Aug Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Players
1993 Sep The Founders of Milwaukee; Salomon Juneau and Josette Viau on their Wedding Day
1993 Oct Monument to the Unknown French Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution at Annapolis, Maryland
1993 Nov La Salle Expedition II in 1976 organized by Reid-H. Lewis of Elgin, Illinois
1993 Dec First Scientific Expedition in California in 1786 by Jean-Francois Galaup de Laperouse
1994 Cover The Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755 by artist Henri Beau in 1900
1994 Jan "The Cross of Mount Royal" Stained Glass Window at Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal, Quebec
1994 Feb Acadian Museum at Saint Martinville, Louisiana; built about 1765
1994 Mar The Mme Cadillac Dance Theatre of Detroit, Michigan
1994 Apr "Chief Pontiac", painting by Jerry Farnsworth, 1926
1994 May Inhabitants of Green Bay (La Baye) in 1762
1994 Jun Louis Juchereau de St Denis enroute to Mexico in 1714
1994 Jul French Monument in Honor of General Charles De Gaulle at Montreal, Quebec
1994 Aug Statue of Evangeline at Grand Pre, Acadia (Nova Scotia today)
1994 Sep Monument to Jack Kerouac at Lowell, Massachusetts
1994 Oct Monument Commemorating the Creole Patriots at New Orleans, Louisiana
1994 Nov Chippewa Mural of the "1863 Old Crossing Treaty Negociations" by Bennett Brien
1994 Dec St Croix Island International Historic Site, Calais, Maine; Settled in 1604
1995 Cover Fortress of Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Acadia (Nova Scotia)
1995 Jan "La Rue St Louis A Montreal" painting by Marc-Aurele Suzor-Cote
1995 Feb Iwo Jima Memorial at Arlington, Virginia - Rene Gagnon
1995 Mar "Le Rocher" "Starved Rock" at Utica, Illinois
1995 Apr Monument to Marguerite Bourgeois at Montreal, Quebec
1995 May Members of the Northern Pacific Expedition, 1869
1995 Jun Compagnie Franche de La Marine of Montreal, Quebec at Brouage, France
1995 Jul The Great Cross, called "de Tonti", Arkansas Post National Memorial
1995 Aug St Joseph Oratory at Montreal, Quebec and Brother Andre
1995 Sep The Route of Generals George Washington and Jean Baptiste Rochambeau
1995 Oct Champlain 1606 Monument at Port Fortune [Stage Harbor], Chatham, Massachusetts
1995 Nov First Play Written and Performed in America in 1606 by Marc Lescarbot
1995 Dec "Virgin and Child" painting by Frere Luc about 1676
1996 Cover First Session of the Governing Council of New France in 1663
1996 Jan Bastion of Fort Duquesne & Bridge at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Charles A. Lesueur
1996 Feb "Le Festival du Voyageur" at Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
1996 Mar 1829 - 1990: The Osages return to France.
1996 Apr Arrival of Madame Cadillac at Detroit, Michigan in 1702
1996 May French Settlements in Upper Louisiana; today the State of Missouri
1996 Jun Obelisk at Sault Saint-Marie, Michigan
1996 Jul Tomb of La Fayette at Paris, France
1996 Aug Monument to Louis IX, called Saint Louis, at Saint Louis, Missouri
1996 Sep 1790 House of Jean-Baptiste Bequette at Saint Genevieve, Missouri
1996 Oct Monument to Father Isaac Jogues at Lake George, New York
1996 Nov Association Canado-Americaine Building at Manchester, New Hampshire
1996 Dec "La Guignolee" Honoring the Ancestors on the "Day of the Dead"
1997 Cover "View of Quebec City" a painting by Fred H. Holloway
1997 Jan "Compagnie Franche de La Marine" at the Fort Stewart Museum, Isle de Sainte-Helene, Montreal
1997 Feb Henri de Tonti, Founder of Peoria, Illinois at Pimetoui in 1691
1997 Mar The Tomb of Julien Dubuque, the Founder of Dubuque, Iowa
1997 Apr Buffalo skin - of Quapaw Culture and the Grand Alliance with France
1997 May Statue of Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac at the Parliament Building at Quebec City
1997 Jun Cheticamp, Acadian Village of Cap Breton
1997 Jul Chapel Island, capital of the Micmac Nation, in Cap Breton, Nova Scotia.
1997 Aug Prime Minister Rene Levesque at the National Assembly
1997 Sep Replica of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's ship "Pelican" in the Old Port at Montreal, Quebec, 1993
1997 Oct House of Longfellow who wrote "Evangeline", at Cambridge, Massachusetts
1997 Nov The "City of Paris" Building at San Francisco
1997 Dec "Christmas" - "Noel" - Santons in America
1998 Cover 1673 Departure of Jolliet & Marquette to Explore the Mississippi
1998 Jan "Le Fleurdelise" The Official Flag of Quebec
1998 Feb "Airborne Museum" at Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France
1998 Mar "Double Eagle" Twenty Dollar Gold Piece by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1998 Apr Monument to Salomon Juneau, Founder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1998 May Monument to Jeanne Mance at Montreal
1998 Jun "Jolliet & Marquette with the Peorias in 1763", painting by Charles Huot
1998 Jul Cataracoui or the Beginnings of Kingston, Ontario
1998 Aug "French Gold-Seekers", in California, painting by Ernest-Etienne Narjot de Francheville (1826 - 1898)
1998 Sep "Jean Nicolet Arrive Chez Les Gens de Mer in 1634", painting by Edwin Willard Deming
1998 Oct "Fort d'Orleans - Les Maries Reviennent de Paris", painting by Ernest L. Blumenschein
1998 Nov "Frontenac Goes to the Onontagues in 1696", painting by J. H. Derinzy
1998 Dec "Ursuline Monastery at Quebec" painting by Millicent Chaplin
1999 Cover Landing of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville at Biloxi on 31 January 1699
1999 Jan The Ship "le Marin" was one of 2 Ships used by Pierre Le Moyne d"Iberville to found Louisiana at Biloxi
1999 Feb "Train de la Reconnaissance" or "Gratitude Train" at Helena, Arkansas
1999 Mar Baton Rouge's "Baton Rouge" at Louisiana
1999 Apr Monument to Verrazzano at New York City, New York
1999 May Church of the "Holy Family" at Cahokia, Illinois, 1799
1999 Jun The "Quebec Act" of 1774
1999 Jul Icarian Museum at Nauvoo, Illinois
1999 Aug The Fountain of La Fayette at La Grange, Georgia
1999 Sep The Tomb of the Duke d'Anville at Louisbourg, Cape Breton
1999 Oct "Road of The Calvary" at Prairie-du-Rocher, Illinois
1999 Nov Monument to Father Jacques Marquette at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1999 Dec "Saint Mary Church" at Manchester, New Hampshire about 1930
2000 Cover View of San Francisco (20% French) in the First Year of the Gold Rush
2000 Jan The Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City and the Franche Marine
2000 Feb Plaque in Honor of Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle & Henri de Tonti in Chicago.
2000 Mar Faneuil Hall at Boston Massachusetts; donated to Boston by Pierre Faneuil; A French Huguenot
2000 Apr Monument to Paul Revere at Boston; his Father Appolos Rivoire immigrated from France
2000 May Tomb of Father Jacques Marquette at Saint-Ignace, Michigan
2000 Jun Tomb of Pierre-Charles L'Enfant at Arlington, Virginia
2000 Jul Statue of the Count de Rochambeau at Paris
2000 Aug French Settlements in the Upper St. John River Valley, Maine
2000 Sep Monument to the 1824-1825 Triumphal Return of Lafayette in America at Lafayette, Louisiana
2000 Oct California Celebrates Its entry into the Union in 1850; San Francisco had a "Little France" neighborhood
2000 Nov Campus of Girard College at Philadelphia; named after Etienne Girard, immigrant from Bordeaux, France
2000 Dec Carpenters Hall at Philadelphia, PA; and the Chevalier de Bonvouloir
2001 Cover Cadillac landing at the site of Detroit on 24 July 1701
2001 Jan "The Birds of America" by John James (aka Jean-Jacques) Audubon
2001 Feb House of Auguste Mouet de Langlade at Michilimakinac, Michigan
2001 Mar Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on the 2000 Golden Dollar
2001 Apr Fort Maurepas, 1699, at Biloxi, Louisiana; now Ocean Springs, Mississippi
2001 May Mount Desert Island, (Acadie) Maine; named by Samuel de Champlain in 1604
2001 Jun Fort Niagara & the Compagnie Franche de la Marine
2001 Jul Birth of Detroit, Canada
2001 Aug Statue of Charles Le Moyne at Montreal, Quebec
2001 Sep The Mississippi at Commerce Town, south of Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1826
2001 Oct La Salle's Party Feasted in the Illinois Village at Lac Peoria in 1680
2001 Nov The Parti Quebecois Gains Power
2001 Dec The Solomon Juneau Bell in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2002 Cover June 1982 Reenactment of Mme Cadillac's Arrival at Fort Pontchartrain, Detroit in 1701 or 1702
2002 Jan Monument Erected for the Bicentennial of Mobile, Alabama in 1902
2002 Feb View of Dauphine Island, Province of Louisiana about 1718 by Dusault
2002 Mar Monument to Louis Hebert at Quebec City, Quebec
2002 Apr Sculpture of the Transfer of the Remains of Father Jacques Marquette to Michilimakinac
2002 May St John Baptiste Day Banquet at Montreal in 1834 by Lorenzo de Nevers
2002 Jun St John's Bonfires at Quebec City, Quebec in 1977
2002 Jul Washington and LaFayette at Valley Forge in 1777
2002 Aug The Ursuline Convent at New Orleans, Louisiana constructed by order of King Louis XV in 1727
2002 Sep The Dionne Quintuplets; Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne
2002 Oct Arrival of Mme Cadillac and Mme Tonti at Fort Pontchartrain, Detroit in 1701
2002 Nov Silk Stole carried by Pope John-Paul II at his visit to St Louis, Missouri in 1999
2002 Dec Benjamin Franklin at the French Court at Versailles, France

Supplementary Information

1989
1980 Census 1
French in America Map per 1980 Census
1989
1980 Census 2
Americans of French Descent by State per 1980 Census
1991 Carignan 1 The Carignan Regiment Officers
1991 Carignan 2 The Carignan Regiment, " They Died for New France"
1992 French Origins Where Our 17th Century French Ancestors Came From
1993 St Louis 1 Recipients of the "Cross of the Order of St Louis" 1
1993 St Louis 2 Recipients of the "Cross of the Order of St Louis" 2
1994 Acadia 1 L'Acadie in 1755 - Populated Areas
1994 Acadia 2 Acadian Regions of the Maritime Provinces in the 20th Century
1995 Two Wars 1 French Memorial of Two World Wars - St Vincent de Paul Church at New York
1995 Two Wars 2 Names of Some of Those Who Died in the Two Wars
1997 Reenactors Reenactors - "Troops of the Marine" and "The Milicia's"
1998 Cities 1 Sister City Affiliations with France, Quebec & Acadia 1
1998 Cities 2 Sister City Affiliations with France, Quebec & Acadia 2
2000 Francophone 1 44 French Speaking Lands and Governments 1
2000 Francophone 2 44 French Speaking Lands and Governments 2
2001 Detroit 1 The Founding of Detroit, Michigan 1
2001 Detroit 2 The Founding of Detroit, Michigan 2

Congratulations to Marie-Reine Mikesell for her excellent efforts
on publishing this calendar for 18 years. I hope that this website will keep alive her efforts,
so that many more people will enjoy the fruits of her labor.
John Fisher June 2007

Franco-American Conference at Makinac Island in August 1983 - Photo at Fort Michillimakinac

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