The true story of the Natchez revolt, the Louisiana Indians

2024-02-07T15:12:09.444Z

Highlights: The true story of the Natchez revolt, the Louisiana Indians. Stéphane Bern receives Gilles Havard, historian, research director at the CNRS and author of “Les NatcheZ, a colonial history of violence” (Tallandier) Historically Yours is produced by Loic Vimard, Benjamin Delsol, Armelle Thiberge and Clio Bayle, and edited by Benjamin Vimard and Armelle Bayle. For more information, visit historicallyyours.com.

Stéphane Bern recounts a terrible forgotten episode of the French colonization of the Americas, a people, now extinct in the United States, who established friendly ties with colonists whom they nevertheless ended up massacring. Or the true story of the Natchez revolt, the Louisiana Indians... Who were the Natchez? What were their relations with the French colonists? What happened in Louisiana on November 28, 1729? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Gilles Havard, historian, research director at the CNRS and author of "The Natchez, a colonial history of violence" (Tallandier)