Eligius Fromentin
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Eligius Fromentin was a French priest who became an American politician. He served as secretary of Louisiana's territorial legislature, and at the constitutional convention that led to its admission t
Burial record for Eligius Fromentin. Despite the spelling of the first name, the date of burial makes it clear this record is for Eligius Fromentin.
Louisiana Purchase
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drai
Eligius Fromentin
…later in Maryland, where he was a schoolteacher and priest. By the early 1800s, Fromentin decided to leave the church and moved to Louisiana, which was being purchased by the United States. He settled in New Orleans in 1803, studied law, and attained admission to the bar. Fromentin was clerk of the territorial house…
The future president James Monroe as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to France helped Robert R. Livingston in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase.
The original treaty of the Louisiana Purchase
Transfer of Louisiana by Ford P. Kaiser for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)
Flag raising in the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square), New Orleans, marking the transfer of sovereignty over French Louisiana to the United States, December 20, 1803, as depicted by Thure de Thulstrup in 1902