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and 2, please contact the author : gousse_f@hotmail.com
 About the author. François Gousse has done extensive research on French troupes de terre and given conferences and trainings at forts and historical sites. He is presently assisting in the command committee for Ticonderoga’s French and Indian War Grand Encampment. In 2001, along with sisters Hélène and Suzanne, François founded a living history organization of military and civilians : Association d’histoire vivante Québec-Canada.  |
By François Gousse " François Gousse has prepared a series of very useful volumes that while focused on the re-enactor, will be of immense help to any historian who studies the colonial period. He has assembled information that is important as background and detail that should provide any serious student of history the tools to enhance their understanding of the military world of New France and improve their Living History portrayal. The most important feature of all this work is that it has been compiled and presented for the benefit of any who is truly interested in learning about the colonial period. François has always been willing to share what he has found and learned from colonial period documents he and others have rooted out from the musty depths of archival repositories. The Re-enactors’ Guide to the French Army in Nouvelle-France, 1755-1760 will be a welcome addition to our better understanding of the French colonial period and it is well-timed to coincide with the 250th Anniversary of the period of study. This multi-volume work is heavily footnoted, as it should be, and is based upon some long-neglected material that Francois has translated into English so more of us can benefit from this period information. " Thomas Nesbitt,
VOLUME 1 - THE BASICS (53 pages) Park recreation supervisor, Crown Point State Historic Site In this first volume, the readers will find descriptions of the ranks and titles used in the mid-18th century French army, the process of enlistment and discharge and the organisation of the various types of troupes found in Nouvelle-France between 1750 and 1760. Future volumes will include: uniforms and equipment, life in garrison, life in camp, drill and manoeuvres, the war year by year, the Swiss régiment de Hallwyl in Louisiana, military crimes and punishments, and several more interesting subjects rarely found in books on the French army, especially on the North American market.
VOLUME 2 - THE CAMPAIGN OF 1755 (117 pages) The second volume tells about the campagne of 1755 from the point of view of the Français and the Canadiens who lived those events. The reader will find a brief summary of the campagne and of the events of the previous years leading up to it, orders and instructions from the Court, Vaudreuil and Dieskau, reports and eyewitnesses' accounts of Braddock's and Dieskau's defeats as well as lists of the rations, habillement and équipement supplied to the soldats and miliciens.
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by Suzanne and André Gousse is the updated translation of Lexique illustré du costume en Nouvelle-France: 1740-1760 published in 1995. This book is a visual dictionary of the terms related to Canadian costume. These terms found in inventories, travelers' clothing descriptions and other documents from the archives were used in New France at the end of the French Regime. Based on three years of research, this book presents a new vision of the Canadiens and Canadiennes of that important part of North America's history. Suzanne Gousse worked as a consultant on historic costume and interpretation. She is now working on her master thesis in history at University of Montreal. André Gousse is a former military and fur trade curator at Parks Canada and is active in the reenactment movement of the Seven Years War. See form to order |
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