HARTMANN, LOUIS; and JEAN-BAPTISTE MILLARD.
Le Texas, ou notice historique sur le Champ d'Asile, comprenant tout ce qui s'est passe depuis la formation jusqu'a la dissolution de cette Colonie.... Paris: Beguin, Bechet, Delaunay, et a Gand, Houdin, Juin 1819.
8vo (204 x 124 mm). Folding copper engraved plan of the fort at Champ d'Aisle. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled paper boards, minor foxing to leaves.
Provenance: Bibliotheque du Chateau des Ormes (engraved armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of the 'best contemporary account of the ill-fated colony of Napoleonic refugees in Texas' (Basic Texas Books 85).

'Although Champ d'Asile, a colony of Bonapartist refugees founded on the Trinity River in 1818, endured barely six months, its impact on the future of Texas was strong. The concern aroused among United States and Spanish diplomats over this intrusion into disputed territory caused two immediate results. United States pressure forced pirate Jean Laffite and his men, who had assisted the French colonists, to leave Galveston. And French presence at Champ d'Asile precipitated the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, which eliminated the Neutral Ground agreement and established the Sabine River as the Louisiana-Texas boundary and the border between the United States and New Spain. The body of thought, art, and literature evoked in Paris around Champ d'Asile also had important long-term effects on Texas' (TSHA Handbook of Texas on-line). Howes 270; Eberstadt Texas 162:386. Fifty Texas Rarities 6; Sabin 30706; Streeter 1069.
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