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  2. A 1564 drawing of French Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville by resident artist Jacques le Moyne Cover of the book French Florida edited by Benjamin S. DiBiase 2014 marked the 450 th anniversary of the French in Florida, recognizing the establishment of Fort Caroline in 1564.

  3. Jacques Le Moyne (1533-1588) was a Huguenot cartographer and draughtsman of flowers and natural history who joined Laudonniere’s expedition to Florida in 1564. Le Moyne was the first artist to travel to the New World and documented Florida’s coastline, local flora and fauna, along with the Timucua Indians.

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    Narrative of Le Moyne, an Artist who Accompanied the French Expedition to Florida Under Laudonnière, 1564.

    Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provicia Gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam nauigatione duce Renato de Laundomere classis Praefecto anno M. D. LXIIII

    Great collections of travel narratives were published in Europe in the second half of the 16th century, reflecting more than a century of European effort to take possession of the New World, both m...

    Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 Editor.
    L' Ecluse, Charles de, 1526-1609 Translator.
    Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588 Author.
    - France
    - United States of America--Florida
    - 1564 to 1575
    - Description and travel
    - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
    - Original resource extent: 106 pages.
    - Original resource at: National Library of France.
    - Content in Latin.
  4. Open hostilities between Catholics and Huguenots had broken out in March 1562, just a month after the expedition had left France for Florida, and an uneasy peace would be achieved through the Edict of Amboise in March 1563.

  5. The French Protestants, attempting to colonize under Ribaud, built Charlefort at Port Royal in 1562, and Fort Caroline under Laudonnière, at the River May (now St. John's, Florida), in 1564.

  6. * Ribault’s landfall at the cape of Anastasia Island (near St. Augustine, Florida) occurred April 29, 1562. This first French expedition to Florida, planned as a refuge for French Protestant Huguenots (and which Le Moyne did not accompany), is depicted in the first

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