American Footprints in Paris - A Guide Book of Historical Data Pertaining to Americans in the French Capital From the Earliest Days to the Present Times #233299

As early as the seventeenth century America began to be represented in Paris other than by a few miserable Indians brought hence by French explorers of the new world. From that time (1653) dates the founding of many trading com panics which even then sought to establish regular business relations, and among which the most far-famed was prob ably the Mississippi Company, headed by Law.