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Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588), illustrator and cartographer, accompanied Rene de Laudonniere’s ill-fated attempt to colonize Florida in 1564. The first European artist to reach Florida, Le Moyne charted the St. John’s Bluff region, now Jacksonville, and sketched scenes from the lives of the Timucua Indians.
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.
* 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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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was an explorer, colonial administrator, and Lieutenant in the French Navy during the Nine Years' War and the Chickasaw Wars. He was known as the “Father” of Louisiana and the French settlement of New Orleans.
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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.Nov 25, 2015 · Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, Floridae Americae provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio. 1591. Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress. Le Moyne's broad triangle version of Florida.
Le Moyne. Illustrations of the French Voyage to the New World in 1564. The Spaniards, having made several disastrous expeditions into Florida, had left it for a time unmolested. 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
