AATF
Advocacy Workshop
North
Park University, Chicago, IL
November 18, 2004 (9:00 am - 3:00 pm)
The core of the AATF's advocacy plan is explained in our advocacy base
site:
Ideas for French Language & Culture Advocacy in
the US
http://www.utm.edu/~globeg/advofr.shtml
which will soon be linked to the AATF's "frenchteachers.org".
This page contains notes and tools for making a specific set of state
advocacy sites. You may choose to discard some of these, and you
will most certainly find better information related to your own states,
which you know much better than I do. I will not hyperlink most of the
addresses on the page, and you will need to use a "copy and paste"
technique to activate the links in your state notes. Here are
tutorials for several relatively free ways of making simple web
pages. Tools needed: either Microsoft Word, Netscape, or some
patience to learn HTML:
Making a Web Page in Microsoft Word
http://depts.washington.edu/trio/comp/howto/page/word/index.shtml
Creating a Web Page with Microsoft Word
http://www.powertolearn.com/articles/teaching_with_technology/creating_a_web_page_with_microsoft_word.shtml
Building Web Pages with Composer
http://wp.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/
How to Create Web Pages Using Netscape Composer
http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/dc/docs/composer/
Writing HTML
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Home Page
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
STATE-SPECIFIC
NOTES
NOTES FOR THE
AATF ADVOCACY WORKSHOP - ARKANSAS
L'ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE MEMPHIS
http://www.people.memphis.edu/%7Ewjthmpsn/alliance.html
Dr. Will THOMPSON
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
The University of Memphis
Dunn Hall 375
MEMPHIS, TN 38152
Tel. (901) 678-3160
Your AATF
According to the 2000 census, there are about 7500 speakers of French,
French Creole, and Cajun French in Arkansas
Arkansas 2003 exports:
total
2,962.2
Canada 807,400,000
Belgium 62,400,000
France 27,800,000
Over 30% of Arkansas's exports go to francophone countries
Canadian Commercial Relations with Arkansas
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/ar-en.asp
Trans-boarder surface freight values August 2003-August 2004
Canada to Arkansas $914,112,939
Arkansas to Canada $965,287,259
FRENCH-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - DALLAS (closest to you)
Directrice : Mme Isabelle de WULF
2665 Villa Creek Drive, Suite 214, Dallas, TX 75234
Téléphone 00 1 972 241 0111 -
Télécopie 00 1 972 241 0901
E-mail : info@faccdallas.com
Site web : http://www.faccdallas.com
3.3% of Arkansas's work force work for foreign companies in Arkansas
(2002)
This figure might be changing rapidly. There was is a recent
study on
Arkansas and the EU (2002)
http://www.eurunion.org/partner/ usstates/Arkansas%20-%20AR%202003.ppt
Some Old French Place Names in the State of Arkansas
http://peace.saumag.edu/swark/articles/ahq/arkansas/ark_frenchnames/frenchnames191.html
The Origin of the Name Arkansas
http://littlerock.about.com/library/weekly/aa051500b.htm
FRENCH MOMENTS IN ARKANSAS HISTORY
1673 - The French came to Arkansas (Marquette and Joliet)
1682 - La Salle came to France
1686 - Henri de Tonti was the first permanent settler in Arkansas
territory at Arkansas Post
1762 - France ceded New Orleans and land west of the Mississippi River.
1803 - The land for Arkansas was bought from France
French Colonial Arkansas
http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/atufrencol.html
check Arnold, Morris S. Colonial Arkansas 1686-1804: A Social and
Cultural History. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1991.
AATF ADVOCACY
WORKSHOP NOTES FOR ILLINOIS
SOME IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
Alliance Française USA
http://www.utm.edu/~globeg/afusa.shtml
shows 4 chapters in Illinois
Alliance Française de Chicago
http://www.afchicago.com/
Mme Solange BROWN
810 North Dearborn Street
CHICAGO, IL 60610
Tel. (312) 337-1070
Fax. (312) 337-3019
E-mail: info@afchicago.com
Executive Director: Jack McCord
Directeur du Centre de Langue: M. Emmanuel SOYER
Alliance Française of DuPage
http://afdupage.com/main.html
Mme Karine MALEC
North Central College
30 North Brainard
NAPERVILLE, IL 60566
Tel. (630) 890-9512
E-mail: webmaster@afdupage.com
Alliance Française of the North Shore
http://wlkhome.northstarnet.org/alliancefn//
Mme Monique WHITING
2400 Marcy Avenue
EVANSTON, IL 60201
Tel. (847) 251-3906
Fax. (847) 491-3877
E-mail: olearymel@yahoo.com
The French Institute of the North Shore
http://www.frenchinstitutens.com/
562 Green Bay Rd.
Winnetka, Illinois 60093
Email: info@FrenchInstituteNS.com
A NUMBER OF ADDRESSES FOR CULTURAL CONCERNS
Huguenot Society of Illinois
http://my.execpc.com/~sril/ilhs.html
Lycée français de Chicago
http://www.lyceechicago.org/lycee/web/
also Voc Steuben High-School in Chicago is doing a lot of things
(videoconferences, email, etc.) with the French
http://www.vceducation.org/ihs/france.html
French Pastery School (at City Colleges of Chicago)
http://www.frenchpastryschool.com/
The ARTFL project
/www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/TLF/
See "The France Chicago Center)
http://fcc.uchicago.edu/
Consulat Général de France à Chicago (see LIAISON
for cultural events)
http://www.consulfrance-chicago.org/
Belgian Consulate - Chicago (address)
http://www.aneki.com/consulate/Belgian_consulate_chicago.html
Canadian Consulate General - Chicago
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/chicago/
Canadian Embasy State Trade Fact Sheet - Illinois
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/il-en.asp
ADDRESSES FOR DIRECT ADVOCACY
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Illinois General Assembly
http://www.legis.state.il.us/
Illinois DOE: Anne Marie Fuhrig amvfuhr@aol.com (atate
supervisor of FL)
Illinois State Board of Ed.: David Hellwig dhellwig@isbe.net
FOR FRANCOPHONE INFLUENCES IN ILLINOIS BUSINESS
French American Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO - Illinois
Directrice : Mme Chantal GLASS
The Merchandise Mart, Suite 940, Chicago, IL 60654
Téléphone 00 1 312 595 9524 - Télécopie 00
1 312 595 9529
Site web http://www.facc-chicago.com/
E-mail : cglass@facc-chicago.com
La mission économique de Chicago (Consulat Général
de France)
05 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3730
Chicago, IL 60601
Tél. : (1 312) 327 5250
Fax : (1 312) 327 5251
http://www.missioneco.org/etatsunis/organigramme.asp?BurID=123
In Illinois, 4.8 % of those employed are employed by foreign campanies,
through foreign direct investment.
Transborder surface freight data (Canada/Illinois, from August 2003 to
August 2004)
$17,579,154,320 + $9,146,523,477
$26,725,677,797
Exports for 2003:
total: 23,931.2
Canada: 8,558.8
Belgium: 824.6
France: 679.0
Nearly 39% of Illinois' exports go to French-speaking countries
FRENCH MOMENTS IN` ILLINOIS HISTORY
1673: Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette arrived in Illinois
1675 - Marquette founds a mission at the Great Village of the Illinois,
near present Utica.
1680: Fort Crevecoeur was built (site of Peoria) by Robert Cavelier,
sieur de La Salle
1682 - La Salle and Tonty build Fort St. Louis across the Illinois
River from the Great Village of the Illinois site.
1696 - Jesuit priest Pierre François Pinet (1660-1704?)
establishes the Guardian Angel mission at present Chicago.
1699 - Priests of the Quebec Seminary of Foreign Missions found the
Holy Family mission at Cahokia, the first permanent settlement in the
Illinois country.
http://www.19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us/bkshelf/resource/timeline_history.htm
1699 - With the increasing number of French settlers, France
establishes the Commandery of Illinois. Judges are appointed by the
commandant for each settlement to execute orders and locally triie all
minor cases.
1703 the village of Kaskaskia, the second European settlement in
the state of Illinois, was established, with a few French traders and
their Indian wives as its first inhabitants.
1715 French fort established in what is now the town of La Harpe
1717 - Illinois becomes the French colony of Louisiana
1718 - John Law (1671-1729) is granted a French charter for colonizing
the Mississippi Valley; his "Mississippi Bubble" scheme bursts in 1720.
1722 - A French Provincial Council is established to exercise primary
jurisdiction in civil as well as criminal matters - first
recorded account of a court in the territory.
1730 - French troops and Indian allies, under the command of Lt. Louis
Coulon de Villiers the elder, win a major battle over the Fox Indians.
1755 - The French and Indian War begins.
1763 - With the defeat of France, the Treaty of Paris, ending the war,
gave all. territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain. The
English settlers tried unsuccessfully impose English common law on
French settlers.
1779 - John Todd (County Lieutenant of Illinois) reorganized the courts
into three districts. Each district had six judges. Because of the
number of French inhabitants, French law was the basis of the
reorganization. However, the influence of English Common Law was
growing.
1780s - Pierre Menard of Antoine-sur-Richelieu (Canada) signs on with a
trading expedition to Illinois
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/hs/Menard.htm
1849 - Ètienne Cabet (1788-1856) establishes a French Icarian
communal settlement at Nauvoo.
FRANCE IN ILLINOIS HISTOPRY WEB PAGES
The Illinois Indians and the French
http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/soc_french.html
The story of French Peoria contributes another chapter to the stated
colonial history
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii951228.html
French Peoria in the Illinois Country
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/IL/il-18_h_lahood1.html
French Lifestyle on the Illinois Frontier
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihy001217.html
Exploring the Midwest's French Roots
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihwt9904.html
Recovering Illinois' French heritage
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii930636.html
Land Between the Waters: The French In Illinois
http://www.eiu.edu/~localite/france/ill.htm
Kankaskia under the French Regime
http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/titles/f03_titles/belting_kaskaskia.htm
The French in Illinois
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcoles/french.htm
Cultural CONFLICTS: The French and the Anglo-Americans in
Pre-statehood Illinois
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/iht910202.html
LES ILLINOIS FRANÇAIS
http://j.pazzoni.free.fr/illinois.htm
Cahokia Courthouse
http://www.state.il.us/HPA/hs/Courthouse.htm
AATF ADVOCACY WORKSHOP NOTES FOR
MARYLAND
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
Consulat Général de France (Washington, DC)
http://www.consulfrance-washington.org/
4101 Reservoir Road NW
Washington DC 20007-2185
Tel: 202 944 6195
The Embassy of Canada
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/md-en.asp
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20001-2114, USA
Tel: (202) 682-1740, Fax: (202) 682-7619
e-mail: webmaster@canadianembassy.org
Alliance Française d'Annapolis
http://www.alliancefrancaiseannapolis.com/
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE D'ANNAPOLIS
13 Faquier Court
EDGEWATER, MD 21037
Tel. (410) 544-2405
E-mail: clairierre@worldnet.att.net
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE BALTIMORE
Mrs. Frances ALDERSON
112 Hilton Avenue
CATONSVILLE, MD 21228
Course coordinator: Mr. Tosie
Tel: (410) 663-2194
Email: frances7096@comcast.net
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE FREDERICK
Mme Françoise MILLER
P.O. Box 1911
FREDERICK, MD 21702
Tel. (301) 662-4956
E-Mail: tmjmiller@msn.com
LE CERCLE FRANÇAIS MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Sandye J. MC INTYRE, II
Department of Foreign Languages
1700 E. Cold Spring Road
BALTIMORE, MD 21251
Tel. (443) 885-3097
Fax.(410) 319-3880
E-mail: cleggett@morgan.edu
French Immersion Schools in Maryland
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/studies/immersion/maryland.html
AATF IN MARYLAND:
American Association of Teachers of French - Maryland Chapter
http://www.languages.umd.edu/french/aatf/
Nicole Minnick, President
E-mail: nminnick@umd.edu
Lorna Wingate, Treasurer
E-mail: lggeig@erols.com
French Language and Culture programs in the Mid-Atlantic region
http://www.frenchculture.org/events/atlantic/
Maryland Foreign Language Association
http://www.mflamd.org/
ADDRESSES FOR DIRECT ADVOCACY
Maryland: Frank Edgerton fedgerton@msde.state.md.us (state
FL supervisor)
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Maryland General Assembly
http://mlis.state.md.us/
MARYLAND FREACH DEMOGRAPHICS
The 2000 census shows that nearly 50,000 French, French creole and
cajun French speakers live in Maryland; about 1% of its population.
FRENCH IN MARYLAND BUSINESS
French American Chamber of Commerce - Washington DC Office
Directrice : Mme Danielle LENOROVITZ
C/o The Inforwest Group
3028 Javier Road, Suite 201, Fairfax, VA 22031
Téléphone 00 1 703 560 6330 - Télécopie 00
1 703 560 6310
Site web: http://www.faccwdc.org/
Email FAChamber@aol.com
FOREIGN TRADE IN 2003:
total: 4,940,600,000
Canada: 943,200,000
Belgium: 214,100,000
France 149,100,000
26.5% of Maryland's exports go to French-speaking countries
Maryland's economic relations with Canada
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/md-en.asp
Canada-Maryland-Canada transboarder surface trade (Aug. 2003-Aug. 2004)
$1,546,489,390 + $1,012,403,892
European Union foreign direct Investment in Maryland 2002
http://www.eurunion.org/partner/ usstates/Maryland%20-%20MD%202003.ppt
French-Owned Sodexho's U.S. unit is based in Maryland, has 110,000
American employees (in all 50 states) and pays $646 million in U.S.
taxes.
Foreign-owned businesses in Maryland
http://www.bls.gov/ro3/fobmd.htm
4.1% of Maryland's labor force is employed by foreign-owned businesses.
in Deleware it is 6.9%
FRENCH MOMENTS IN MARYLAND HISTORY
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian navigator in the service of
France, likely visited the Chesapeake region
1754 - The French somehow persuaded most Indians in Frederick County to
leave suddenly.
1918 - Maryland troops fought at Battle of Neuse-Argonne, France.
Archives of Maryland online
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/index.html
The Huguenot Society of Maryland
Maryland naturalized all French Protestants,
Huguenot Society of Maryland’s The Huguenots: Their History and Legacy:
Biographies of Ancestors of Members of the Huguenot Society of Maryland
(GEN 975.2 H891 MD)
Durand, of Dauphine: "A Huguenot Exiled for his Religion, with a
Description of Virginia and Maryland." From the Hague edition of
1687... NY: The Press of the Pioneers. 1934. (1)
http://www.bonsecours.org/baltimore/mission.html
Bon Secours Baltimore Health System (BSBHS) The Congregation of the
Sisters of Bon Secours was founded in Paris, France in 1824 after the
French Revolution.
Powell, Allan. Maryland and the French and Indian War
FRENCH PLACE NAMES IN MARYLAND
Havre de Grace, Beauvue,, Bel Air, Bel Pre, Bellevue, Belmont, Belvoir
Manor, Buteaux Crossing, La Vale, Hughesville
AATF CHICAGO WORKSHOP NOTES FOR MISSOURI
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
Canadian Consulate General - Chicago
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/menu-en.asp?mid=6
Consulat Général de France - Chicago
http://www.consulfrance-chicago.org/
AATF Chapters in Missouri (no functioning web site)
Greater St. Louis Chapter
Mary Ellen Pearson, Treasurer
E-mail: mepearson@brentwood.k12.mo.us
Anne Gray-Le Coz, President
E-mail: agraylecoz@vdoh.org
Greater Kansas City AATF
Sandy Trundle, Secretary-Treasurer
E-mail: sktrundle@earthlink.net
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE KANSAS CITY MO
http://www.afkc.org/
Mr. David A. Cadoret
P.O.Box 5947
KANSAS CITY, MO 64111
Tel. (816) 221-2049
Fax. (816) 512-5099
E-mail: afkc@afck.org
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE SAINT JOSEPH
Dr. Susan HENNESSY
1205 Midyett Road
SAINT JOSEPH, MO 64506
Tel. (816) 232-7405
Fax. (816) 232-5182
E-mail: hoffmann@mwsc.edu
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE SAINT LOUIS
http://www.alliancestl.com/
Mrs Ruth A BRYANT
8505 Delmar Blvd, Suite G
SAINT LOUIS, MO 63124
Tel. (314) 432-0734
Fax (314) 432-8212
E-mail: allianceSL@accessus.net
Directeur: M. Paul AZZARA
FRENCH CLUB OF COTTEY COLLEGE
Mme Catherine CAMPBELL
French Department
1000 W. Austin
NEVADA, MO 64772
Tel. (417) 667-8181
Fax. (417) 667-8103
E-mail: ccampbell@cottey.edu
Foreign Language Association of Missouri
http://www.fmamnet.org
DIRECT ADVOCACY ADDRESSES
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Missouri General Assembly
http://www.moga.state.mo.us/
Missouri Legislators
http://www.flamnet.org/flam_legislators.html
HISTORY & CULTURE ON THE WEB
St. Louis French Heritage Day Trips
http://www.explorestlouis.com/grouptours/dt_french.asp
St. Louis, A French Colony
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/colonial.htm#St.%20Louis,%20A%20French%20Colony
St. Louis's French Connection
http://www.lesamis.org/stlouis.html
French Exploration and Settlement (Missouri State History)
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/us/A0859686.html
Three Flags Day
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/colonial.htm#%a0%22La%20Marseillaise%22
"The French in Missour. " Geo Teacher 12, no. 1 (Winter 1999)
http://www.umsl.edu/~mga/newsletter/ geoteacher/documents/gtfrmo99.pdf
FRENCH MOMENTS IN MISSOURI HISTORY
1673 - St. Louis area visited by Father Jacques Marquette and Louis
Jolliet
1673-1764 - Missouri visited by French fur traders
1682 - Explorer Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle taveled past
Missouri on the Mississippi
1700 - Missionaries established St. Francis Xavier, the first
white settlement of Missouri, abandoned in 1703
1719 -Marc Antoine de La Loere Des Ursins, with the Compagniedes
Indies, with a crew of workmen, begins digging for lead and silver in
the Mine La Motte area.
1720 - Frenchmen, Phillippe Francois Renault brought the first black
slaves (from Haiti) to Missouri
1724 - Fort Orleans built on the north bank of the Missouri river by
Etienne de Bourgmont
1728 - Fort Orleans was abandoned and Bourgmont traveled
with a native American woman, Ouaconisen and members of her tribe to
France
1735 - Trade on the Mississippi prompted the founding of Ste. Genevieve
as a trading post
1750 - founding of Ste. Genevieve as a city
1762 - France secretly ceded the territory west of the Mississippi to
Spain.
1763 - Pierre Laclede and his stepson, Auguste Chouteau, founded Saint
Louis as a trading post
1764 - The establishment of St. Louis as a city (February 15).
1769 - City of St. Charles was established by Louis Blanchette as a
trading post
1773 - Mine au Breton (later Potosi) founded.
1793 - Louis Lorimer received trading privileges and authority to
establish a post at Cape Girardeau (Jan. 4)
1800 - Spain returned the Louisiana Territory to France, Oct. 30 (in a
secret treaty of San Ildefenso)
1803 - Missouri is part of the Louisiana Purchase from France (signed
in May)
1808 - Incorporation of the city of Ste. Genevieve (June 18)
1828 - \French Fur Traders established a trading post at the mouth of
Locust Creek.
1927 - Charles Lindberg, flew "The Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/colonial.htm#The%20Founding%20of%20St.%20Louis
MISSOURI'S FRENCH PLACE NAMES:
Cape Girardeau, St. Louis, Ste. Geneviève, St. Charles,
Bourbeuse River, Creve Coeur, Mine LaMotte, Bonnets Mill, Bonne
Terre, Florissant, St. Francois County, Valle Mines, Mine Renault,
Osage, Alma, Belgique, Belle, Bellefontaine Neighbors, Bellerive,
Bourbon, Chamois, Champ, Dardenne Prairie, Des Peres, Des Arc, Desloge,
Laclede, La Due, Florissant , Frontenac, Ladue, La Grang, Noel ,
Olivette, Peruque, French Villiage, Terre Du Lac Missouri , Rocheport,
Maries County, Maries, Portage des Sioux, Labadie, Cuvier River,
Gasconade County, Loutre River
Carte du Missouri by F.P. du Lac (1802)
http://athena.emporia.edu/nasa/lewis_cl/history/carte1.jpg
French fur traders built trading posts along the Missouri
River. Missionaries established St. Francis Xavier, the first
white settlement of Missouri. It was located near
present-day St. Louis, but was deserted in 1703.
Missouri's Speakers of French (incl. Patois & Cajun) or French
creaole: well over 20,000
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE-RELATED BUSINESS
An estimated 139,000 Missouri jobs are supported by foreign sales
2003 exports
total 7,233.900,000
Canada 3,080.500,000
Belgium 170.300,000
France 95.000,000
Over 45% of Missouri's 2003 exports went to francophone countries
3.7% of Missouri's workforce is employed by foreign-owned campanies
EU15' Investment of over $10 billion in Missouri supported an
estimated 58,300 jobs in 2002
Economic relations between Canada and Missouri (August 2003-August 2004)
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/mo-en.asp
Transborder surface freight values
Canada to Missouri $3,150,635,780
Missouri to Canada $4,238,073,467
AATF ADVOCACY
WORKSHOP NOTES FOR OHIO
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
Canadian Consul General in Detroit
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/detroit/
Consul Général de France - Chicago
http://www.consulfrance-chicago.org/
Alliance Française de Cincinnati
http://www.france-cincinnati.com/
La Maison Française de Cleveland
http://home.att.net/~maisonfrancaise/
French Alliance Columbus
http://www.frenchalliancecolumbus.com/
Ohio Foreign Language Association (Political Advocacy Patrice Castillo)
http://www.ofla-online.com/
Ohio AATF
Rita Stroempl, President
E-mail: rsentier@centurytel.net
Jean Morris, Secretary-Treasurer
E-mail: jmorris@muskingum.edu
Ohio French Immersion Schools
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/studies/immersion/ohio.html
DIRECT ADVOCACY ADDRESSES:
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Ohio General Assembly
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/senate.cfm
Ohio: Charles Conway charles.conway@ode.state.oh.us (state FL
supervisor)
DEMOGRAPHY
Ohio has over 45,000 speakers of Frenc, French Creole and Cajun French
FRENCH PLACE NAMES IN OHIO
La Chapelle Creek, Huron River, Portage River, North Fond Du Lac, La
Carne, La Carpe Creek, La Toussaint River, etc. Vermilion, Belmont,
Circleville, Massillon. Marietta was named in honor of Marie
Antoinette, Fort Loramie, Fayette County, Presque Isle, Macachee Lake.
Ohio Past and Present Locations
http://www.geocities.com/ohioplaces/
FRENCH MOMENTS IN OHIO HISTORY
673 : The intendant Talon sends Louis Jolliet and father Jacques
Marquette to explore the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers
and claim them for France.
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, the French explorer,
traveled through Ohio land in 1667 and is thought to have been the
first white person to see the Ohio River.
The first European to visit what became the Buckeye State was the
explorer Robert Cavelier LaSalle, who arrived in 1669 and claimed the
area for France.
Vermillion Ohio 1669 when Adrien Jolliet traversed the north shore west
to east. That year two missionaries met Jolliet who told them of his
passage on the lake. They recorded their visit to Lake Erie at Grand
River near Long Point, where they spent the winter.
http://www.vermilion.net/history/explorers.htm
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, the French explorer,
traveled through Ohio
land in 1667
The first historical records of the American Indians in Ohio come from
the French missionaries who entered into the region in late seventeenth
and early eighteenth centuries.
1669-1670
French explorers Adrien Jolliet and René-Robert Cavelier, sieur
de La Salle, are believed to be the first Europeans to reach Lake Erie
and the Ohio River.
1671: Simon Daumont de Saint-Lusson declared the lands of the
western interior for France at Sault Ste. Marie. Louis Jolliet was one
of the signers of this declaration which included the area that later
became Ohio.
1669 Robert Cavelier LaSalle, who arrived, and claimed the area [Ohio]
for France.
The Diocese of Quebec was established in 1674, with ecclesiastical
jurisdiction over the entire territory of New France which included the
area now part of Ohio.
In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and claimed the entire territory for
France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.
1747
Ohio Company of Virginia created by Virginia land speculators.
Subsequent unsuccessful efforts to erect a settlement in Ohio anger the
French, Ohio Indians, Pennsylvania fur traders, and the Penn family.
1749: Jesuit Fathers Potier and Joseph de Bonnecamp came from Quebec to
evangelize the Huron Indians living along the Vermilion and Sandusky
Rivers in Northern Ohio.
1749.4 CARTE D'UN VOYAGE FAIT DANS LA BELLE RIVIERE ENLA
NOUVELLE FRANCE M DCC XLIX, by Father Joseph Pierre de Bonnecamps. In
1749 the French sent Celoron de Blainville down the Allegheny and
Ohio Rivers as a show of force to the British. Blainville buried
lead plates at major river junctures along the way as proof of
French ownership. Bonnecamps accompanied the expedition and
prepared this manuscript map which is now at the Bibliotheque
Nationale in Paris. It shows 'Lac' Ontario and Erie and the
route down the Allegheny, the Ohio, up the Great Miami
River and then down the Maumee back to Lake Erie.
Bonnecamps' journal and map appear in the Jesuit Relations
and the map is reproduced in Smith's Mapping of Ohio and in
Hanna, which is the image shown here.
Map route of Celoron de Blainville in 1749
http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1749bonnecamp.jpg
The Tuscarawas River served as a boundary line among the Indians as
early as 1650. Later it was a boundary line between the French and the
English
1752 French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts
from Lake Erie
1754 June-July
Albany Congress: Representatives from the Iroquois League and seven
English colonies, including Pennsylvania, meet to renew friendship and
discuss possible responses to the growing French presence in the
Ohio Valley.
1754 French and Indian War begins as George Washington leads Virginia
troops against French in Ohio Valley.
1755 - GENERAL BRADDOCK led an English army against the French in Ohio.
They were ambushed and wholly defeated, Washington saving the remnant
of the army.
Map in Paris, Archives Nationales. NN 173, no 46. Essai du cours de
l'Ohio avec les forts français et anglais, tiré de
la carte anglaise de Washington (1755).
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/nllefce/fr/rep_ress/an_cp.htm
1763
France cedes the Ohio country to Great Britain at the end of the French
and Indian War. Ottawa chief Pontiac leads an uprising of Native
Americans in an attempt to drive out the British
Historical account of Bouquet's expedition against the Ohio Indians, in
1764
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.asp?id=3293
1790: A colony of French settlers, located at Gallipolis on the Ohio,
and Dom Peter Joseph Didier, a Benedictine monk, built a church, but
growing discouraged left after a few years.
HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY (French role)
http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Madison/MadisonChapIII.htm
OHIO'S ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS WITH THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
2003 Ohio exports 29,764.400,000
Canada: 16,894.400,000
France 767.9 (down 28% from 2002 in spite of
situation with Euro)
Belgium: 449.1
Switzerland: 125.5
nearly 62% of Ohio exports go to countries where French is an official
language
Foreign Direct Investment (New Economy Index, 2002 - Globalization)
http://www.neweconomyindex.org/states/2002/02_globalization_03.html
4.7% of all Ohio's jobs come from foreign-direct investment
Foreign Companies with Operations in Ohio (2002)
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/research/ProductListing.html#B300
Foreign Investment in Ohio
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/research/FILES/B300000003.pdf
French-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cincinnati
http://www.france-cincinnati.com/facc/index.html
Canada-Ohio Commersial Relations
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/oh-en.asp
French-American Chamber of Commerce (Northern Ohio Chapter)
http://members.cox.net/faccohio/links.html
Northeast Ohio Trade & Economic Consortium
http://www.neotec.org/globalpartners.htm
Site selection magazine has pointed out that Ohio has "an Export Tax
Credit encourages global growth. Companies that increase their export
sales, and at the same time either expand their Ohio payroll or capital
spending, can claim a franchise tax credit."
The Canadian Studies Center at Bowling Green State University in
Bowling Green, Ohio has published a directory profiling 147 individual
firms which have locations in both Canada and Ohio. Among the findings:
seventy-two Canadian-owned companies employ over 5,850 Ohioans while
Ohio-owned companies in Canada employ 18,000 Canadians. Although the
U.S. invests at much higher levels in Canada, during the ten years
ending in 1998 the growth of Canadian investment in the U.S. has
outpaced U.S. investment in Canada.
http://www.theadvertiser.com/news/html/F8183340-3107-4E48-BDE6-F91CD6F45935.shtml
AATF ADVOCACY WORKSHOP NOTES FOR VIRGINIA
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
L'Alliance Française de Charlottesville
http://avenue.org/afc/
M. Roger KETCHAM
P.O. Box 124
EARLYSVILLE, VA 22936
Tel. (434) 973-8268
Fax. (434) 973-1330
E-mail: afc@avenue.org
Directrice: Mme Andrée MADEC-KING
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE CHAPITRE ROCHAMBEAU
M. Fabio GUERINONI
6401 Trail View Circle, Apt. 303
CHESTER, VA 23831
Tel. (804) 717-5822
E-mail: guerino@bit.csc.lsu.edu
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE LYNCHBURG
Mme Michelle GABATHULER
P.O.Box 3482
LYNCHBURG, VA 24503
Tel. (434)384-0089
E-mail: mmgabathuler@adelphia.net
Alliance Française de Hampton Roads (Chapitre de Grasse
http://www.afusa.org/af/norfolk/
Norfolk, Virginia 23517
Messagerie : 757.671.9142
E-mail: AFChapitredeGrasse@hotmail.com
The chapter was so named in honor of the Comte de Grasse (1722-1788), a
French admiral who was born in the Bar (Provence). He commanded the
French naval force that fought the British off Cape Henry and prevented
them from entering the Chesapeake Bay. The British ships had sailed
from New York to supply General Cornwallis, who was surrounded by
Washington’s forces in Yorktown. This little-recognized action
led to the inevitable surrender of Cornwallis.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Virginia has nearly 43,000 native speakers of French, French Creole or
Cajun French.
VIRGINIA AATF CHAPTER
VIRGINIA CHIPTER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF FRENCH
http://www.fll.vt.edu/aatf-va/
Amy de Graff & Françoise Watts, Co-Presidents
Randolph-Macon College
Department of Romance Languages
P.O. Box 5005
Ashland, VA 23005
E-mail: adegraff@rmc.edu / fwatts@rmwc.edu
Kathy Miller, Treasurer
E-mail: emillfun@aol.com
French Immersion Programs in Virginia
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/studies/immersion/virginia.html
DIRECT ADVOCACY ADDRESSES:
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Virginia General Assembly
http://legis.state.va.us/
Virginia: Faye Rollings-Carter
rolling@pen.k12.va.us (state FL supervisor)
VIRGINIA'S COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES:
EXPORTS IN 2003:
total 4,940.6
Canada 943.2
Belgium 214.1
France 149.1
About 26.5% of Virginia's exports go to Francophone countries
As for foreign direct investment, 5% of Virginia's work force is
employed by foreign-owned companies.
As of 1995, over 144,000 acres of Virginia farmland were foreign-owned
Virginia offers six foreign trade zones and subzones
FOREIGN OWNED COMPANIES IN VIRGINIA BY COUNTRY
http://www.radford.edu/~geog-web/alliance/vaworld/data.html
Directory of Foreign Affiliated Firms located in the Greater Richmond
metro area
http://www.grpva.com/New_pages/pub_FAF_wildcard.html
Virginia Economic Development Review
http://www.virginiaedreview.com/
Virginia: Exports, Jobs and Foreign Investment
http://www.commerce.gov/opa/press/2004_Releases/October/Free%20and%20Fair%20Trade/Virginia_Free%20and%20Fair%20Trade.htm
International Business Picking Up in Washington Region
http://www.tradebuilders.com/press/press35.html
Regional Profile of the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance -
International Business
http://www.hreda.com/regional_profile_international.asp
French-American Chamber of Commerce - Washington DC
http://www.faccwdc.org/
Directrice : Mme Danielle LENOROVITZ
C/o The Inforwest Group
3028 Javier Road, Suite 201, Fairfax, VA 22031
Téléphone 00 1 703 560 6330 - Télécopie 00
1 703 560 6310
Email FAChamber@aol.com
FRENCH MOMENTS IN VIRGINIA HISTORY
1781 - The French fleet under Admiral De Grasse defeats the British
fleet in a bloody two-day sea battle off the coast of Cape Henry.
1781 - American and French troops defeat British forces at
Yorktown, Virginia
1784 - Thomas Jefferson was sent with Benjamin Franklin and Samuel
Adams to France to negotiate commercial treaties.
1785 - Jefferson succeeded Franklin as ambassador to France.
1786, while serving as U.S. minister to France, Jefferson met John
Ledyard.
1788 - Jefferson modeled for the Virginia capital building after the
Mason Carrée at Nîmes
1794 - James Monroe Commissioned Minister to France by President George
Washington, served 3 years there.
1803 - Monroe was envoy to France to negotiate purchase of the
Louisiana Territory.
1817-25 Monroe furnishes the White House with auction purchase of
Marie Antoinette's furniture.
1832 - Alexis de Toqueville travels through Virginia, arriving in
Norfolk on Januaru 15.
1944 - The county of Bedford, Virginia suffered some of the
highest losses, proportionally, of any American community during the
D-Day invasion.
Expédition Particulière
http://www.xenophongroup.com/mcjoynt/ep_web.htm
The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin In the Colony of
Virginia
http://www.huguenot-manakin.org/
Huguenots in Virginia
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/religion/huguenots.html
During the colonial period Virginia colonists and France were in
constant conflict
RESEARCHING the FRENCH CAMPS of 1781 and 1782 at
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.
http://xenophongroup.com/mcjoynt/alex_hrm.htm
AATF ADVOCACY
WORKSHOP NOTES FOR WASHINGTON DC
SOME IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
Canadian Embassy in Washington DC
http://www.canadianembassy.org/homepage/index-en.asp
French Consulate in Washington DC
http://www.consulfrance-washington.org/
Cultural Services of the Embassy of France
http://www.la-maison-francaise.org/
Embassy World (for everything)
http://www.embassyworld.com/
Alliance Française de Washington DC
http://www.francedc.org/
Histrio: A French Theater
http://www.frenchtheater.com/
CLOSEST AATF - Northern Virginia
Muriel Dominguez, President
E-mail: muriel.dominguez@marymount.edu
Vonnique Van Way Dowling, Secretary-Treasurer
E-mail: v3wd@cs.com / connique@comcast.net
EDUCATION LINKS
French Immersion Schools in Washington DC
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/studies/immersion/dc.html
District of Columbia Public Schools Web Site
http://www.k12.dc.us/dcps/home.html
Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Washington DC
http://dc.about.com/od/publicschools/
Parents United for the DC Public Schools
http://www.parentsunited4dc.org/
Links to private schools in Washington, D. C., Maryland and Virginia
http://dc.about.com/od/privateschools/
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA FROM 2000 CENSUS
The Distrrict of Columbia has nearly 9700 speakers of French (+patois
& cajun), French
Creole
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
French-American Chamber of Commerce
WASHINGTON, D.C. - District of Colombia
http://www.faccwdc.org/
Directrice : Mme Danielle LENOROVITZ
C/o The Inforwest Group
3028 Javier Road, Suite 201, Fairfax, VA 22031
Téléphone 00 1 703 560 6330 -
Télécopie 00 1 703 560 6310
Email FAChamber@aol.com
The District of Columbia and the EU
http://www.eurunion.org/partner/usstates/
District%20of%20Columbia%20-%20DC%202003.ppt
Canada's economic relationship with the Ditrict of Columbia
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/dc-en.asp
2003 EXPORTS FROM THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DC exports are not like those in the rest of the country, and the
dropped around 20% between 2002
and 2003
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/country/2003/dc.txt
TOTLAL 809.2
Canada
16.5
Switzerland 10.5
France
10.2
Tunisia
7.4
Need a paid internship using French in DC
http://www.eih.com/dc.jobs/forums/intern/messages/516.html
FRENCH MOMENTS IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HISTORY
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian navigator in the service of
France,passed by the Chesapeake
region
1793 - Citizen Genet arrives from France to attempt to bring the
US into a war with Great
Britain
1798 - "Sedition Law" to assure America's neutrality in the issue of
the French Revolution.
1801 Jefferson ordered wallpaper and furniture from France when he
began his term at the White
House
1817-25 James Monroe furnishes the White House with auction
purchase of Marie Antoinette's furniture.
1832 Alexis de Tocqueville and Beaumont's impressions of
Washington DC
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/tour/washtxt.html
1832 - Account of their visit in January & February
http://www.tocqueville.org/dc1.htm
AATF ADVOCACY
NOTES FOR WISCONSIN
Wisconsin Needs French (WI already has its own site)
http://www.uwm.edu/~alkhas/winfrench/index.htm
Wisconsin's French Connections
http://www.uwm.edu/~alkhas/winfrench/index.htm
French Immersion Schools in Wisconsin
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/studies/immersion/wisconsin.html
Wisconsin - Paul Sandrock s.paul.sandrock@dpi.state.wi.us (state
FL coordinator)
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Wisonsin State Legislature
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/
