| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Le rêve californien: Migrants français sur la côte Pacifique, XVIIIe–XXe siècles (Californian dreams: French migrants on the Pacific Coast, 18th–20th centuries). By Annick Foucrier. (Paris: Belin, 1999. 428 pp. Paper, F 130, ISBN 2-7011-2638-X.) In French.

Numerically, the French never ranked high among immigrants to the United States. This is true even for California, where their presence was relatively high. Yet in California they formed a cultural, social, political, and economic community that left its own imprint on California history. Annick Foucrier has unearthed this largely unknown history and presented it in a narrative, at times even anecdotal, style. Her meticulous research led her, like a detective, to the most diverse sources in France and the United States. The result is a richly rewarding panorama taking the reader back to the early days, when California was changing from Spanish to Mexican rule. The immigrant pioneers entered a world that was cast in a Spanish mold and was culturally and linguistically closer to them than California would be as a state of the Union. Many of the early immigrants came to California as only the last station in a trajectory of geographic mobility, within France, within Europe, within Latin America. . . .

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