Writing on the French Creoles in 1962 and 2017

The Maingots of Surgères, France

Bordeaux: the Maingots of a bourgeois city

Spanish Trinidad in 1786: fundamentals of Spanish imperial rule

The first "wave" of French colinists in Trinidad: what attracted them? The role of Roume de St. Laurent

Contextualizing his marriage contract

Joseph Étienne Maingot and the Great Port-of-Spain fire of 1808: the socio-economic context

Joseph Étienne Maingot leaves for Lyon. Why?

What kind of of society should Trinidad be? Important debates

Cocoa: establishing the French Creole economy

Consolodating the French Creole identity: race, endogamy, education, and religion

The Maingots in World War I

for God and country but with France in their hearts

The tenuous transition to self-government

French Creoles in the reformist press

Aurthur Cipriani and the end of an era: too radical for a French Creole, too Catholic conservative for the rebelious masses

Trinidad's plural society and the undeniable legacy of the French Creoles. Appendices. Definition of the term Creole/Criollo ; Myth of the aristrocratic status ; Joseph Etienne Maingot timeline ; Freemasonary in Trinidad ; Rodney Maingot

obituary, Lancet ; French Creole families ; De Verteuil family ; Maingots in WWI ; Newspaper column by C.L.R. James; Maingots in the legal profession; Continuing a tradition of charitable works.

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