The French Legation in Texas – Volume I

France, the first European power to recognize the United States, also became the first to recognize the Republic of Texas as an independent state. This is the story of the man who built the French Legation in Austin, Alphonse Dubois de Saligny, chargé d’affaires to King Louis Philippe of France. Dubois de Saligny’s perceptive and detailed observations and impressions give a unique portrait of Texas and Texians in the 1840s. Volume 1, Recognition, Rupture, and Reconciliation, contains government memoranda and correspondence from Dubois.

With a foreword by John Connally.

Published in 1971. Hardcover. Translated and edited with an introduction by Nancy Nichols Barker.

About the author: Nancy Nichols Barker (December 26, 1925 – March 30, 1994) was an American historian, editor, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.