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Jean Ribault first explored the mouth of the St. Johns River in Florida in 1562 and erected a stone monument there before leading the party north and establishing an outpost of two dozen or so soldiers on Parris Island, South Carolina. He then sailed back to France for supplies and settlers.
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. Le Moyne lost most of his work during the 1565 Spanish attack on Fort Caroline.
Jacques LeMoyne was a French artist who came to Florida with Rene de Laudonniere, a French explorer, in 1564. LeMoyne was the first artist to visit the new world. He traveled through North Florida, charting the coastline and the lives of the Timucua Indians.
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.
* 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
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 St. John's, Florida), in 1564.
De Morgues accompanied Laudonnière to Florida in 1564 and escaped the massacre of French colonists by a Spanish armada the following year. His engravings are the only surviving visual testimony to an Indian nation that is now extinct, the Timucua Indians of Florida, with whom the French sought an alliance at the time of their attempted settlement.
