ABBÉ ADRIEN-EMMANUEL ROUQUETTE
ADRIEN ROUQUETTE
Tribute to Orestes A. Brownson. Oui, je comprends, Brownson, ta haute intelligence Répandant sur nous tous sa feconde efflugence, Je comprends ta Revue, immense mine d’or Riche Californie, indegène tresor, Arsenal litteraire, ou nous trouvons des armes Pour vancre et terrasser l-erreur pleine d’alarmes.
To Father Hecker. Je te comprends, Hecker, avec tes compagnons De la cause Eternelle eloquents champions, Apotres du Pays, héroíques Paulistes, De notre Republique ardents Evangelistes, Vous que le ciel destine a porter de grande coups, Je vous aime et salue, et je suis avec vous.
“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY
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1813
February 26, Friday: Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (his father, from Bordeaux, had recently married a young Creole woman and established himself as a local wine merchant). The family would include four other children, two of whom would later become well-known Louisiana poets (for instance, Francois-Dominique Rouquette).
NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT
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1814
Shortly after the birth of Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette in 1813, perhaps in this year, the Rouquette family moved to Bayou Saint John on the outskirts of New Orleans, near settlements of Choctaw tribespeople.
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.
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1823
In Louisiana, Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette was a student at the Collège d’Orléans when his parents sent him north in an attempt to divert his mind from the local Choctaw — a low native people in regard to whom the interest of a white child was inappropriate. The white child would be pursuing his education in more innocuous locales, such as Kentucky and New Jersey.
LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.
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1829
Joseph-Héliodore-Sagesse-Vertu Garcin de Tassy’s RUDIMENTS DE LA LANGUE HINDOUSTANIE.
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rèmusat’s NOUVEAUX MÉLANGES ASIATIQUES, OU RECUEIL DE MORCEAUX CRITIQUES ET DE MÉMOIRES RELATIFS AUX RELIGIONS, AUX SCIENCES, AUX COUTUMES, À L’HISTOIRE ET À LA GÉOGRAPHIE DES NATIONS ORIENTALES (Volumes I and II, Paris).
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette was sent to Paris to polish up his French at the Collège Royal in Paris. At the time the capital was in a political turmoil. To avoid this turmoil, the student would finish his college studies in Nantes and Rennes in the West of France. He would receive his baccalaureate in 1833 and then travel in Europe for awhile before returning to New Orleans.
THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1833
In France, Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette received his baccalaureate.
He travel in Europe for awhile and then return to New Orleans, to settle at Bayou Lacombe where would be near another settlement of Choctaw tribespeople. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette again journeyed from New Orleans to France, this time preparing for the practice of the law. He would have unhappy love affairs, find that he preferred literature to law, and return to Louisiana.
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1841
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand provided a Christian “spin” for the revolutionary motto LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ, alleging in the concluding section for his autobiography that: Far from being at its term, the religion of the Liberator is now only just entering its third phase, the political period, liberty, equality, fraternity.
Adrien Rouquette published a collection of poems, LES SAVANES, POÉSIES AMÉRICAINES (Paris: J. Labitte & Nouvelle-Orléans: A. Moret). He so admired the romantic poetry of Chateaubriand that he dedicated a number of his pieces to him. The French critic Sainte-Beuve praised his work: I took great pleasure in your Savanes at smelling many youthful and sincere fragrances. It seemed to me that I was in a country that was friendly but that had not lost the charm of the unexpected. It is a great accomplishment, dear sir, for you to have experienced this vast wilderness and to have captured it HDT WHAT? INDEX
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Rouquette entered the Plattenville seminary in Assumption Parish near New Orleans. He would be ordained as a Catholic priest in 1845.
THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1842
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette journeyed from New Orleans to France for a 3rd time. His poetry would be so well received that he would be able to return to Louisiana as editor of “Le Propagateur Catholique.” HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1845
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette was ordained as a Catholic priest and assigned to the Cathedral of Saint Louis in New Orleans. He would serve for 14 years, becoming Vicar General. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1846
January 8, Thursday: In New Orleans, Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette made a speech commemorating the Battle of New Orleans. The speech would be published in Paris.1
1. Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette. DISCOURS PRONONCÉ A LA CATHÉDRALE DE SAINT-LOUIS (Nouvelle-Orlèans, 1846), a l’occasion de l’anniversaire du 8 janvier (Paris: Librairie de Sauvaignat, 1846) HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1848
Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette’s WILD FLOWERS – SACRED POETRY (New Orleans, Louisiana: T. O’Donnell). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1852
Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette’s LA THÉBAÏDE EN AMÉRIQUE, OU, APOLOGIE DE LA VIE SOLITAIRE ET CONTEMPLATIVE (Nouvelle Orleans: Imprimerie Méridier). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1854
November 1, Wednesday: The personal library of Francis Sales was sold at auction (Harvard Library has an inventory of the volumes).
Henry Thoreau was being written to by Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette of New Orleans, appreciating WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS and asking for a copy of A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS.
Mandeville, St. Tammany, La. 1.e Nov 1854 Mr Henry D. Thoreau. Monsieur—, En lisant le numero dans Novembre de la Revue de Putnam, je fut frappé par la courte notice sur [n]otre ouvrage intitulé: Walden; or, Life in the Woods. J’ai eu le bonheur de le trouver chez in libraire de la Nouvelle Orléans, et je l’ai lu presque en entier. Avant meme de l’avoir fini, j’éprouve le besoin de vous exprimer ma sinceré et cordiale admiration. Votre livre m’a immensément intéressé; il m’a rappelé HDT WHAT? INDEX
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le “Voyage autour de ma chambre” du fam[eux] Xavier de Maistre; mais il est plus séri[eux] et plus philosophique. J’ose, Monsieur, vous prier de m’envoyer, si vous le pouvez (par la poste) un exemplaire de “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”: vous me feriez le plus grand plaisir. Je vous pria d’ac- cepter trois de mes ouvrages: Wild-Flowers—La Thébaéde en Amérique—et Un Discours—qui je vous envoie en memé temps que cette lettre.
Page 2 Mon adresse est: Revd. Adrian Rouquette, Mandeville, St. Tammany, Louisiana. Croyez, Monsieur, é tous les sentiments du respect et du sympathie avec lesquels je suis votre tout déviné Serviteur A Rouquette P.S. C’est par l’intermédiaire de Ticknor & Fields que je vous envoir cette lettre et les livres qui l’accompagnent.
WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF
November 11, Saturday: A story by Louisa May Alcott appeared in Boston’s Saturday Evening Gazette,“The Rival Prima Donnas” by “Flora Fairfield.”
Henry Thoreau received the package of three books, and letter in French, that had been posted by the Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette in New Orleans on the 1st of the month. Total travel time from the Louisiana port to the Massachusetts port, plus pickup and delivery in Boston to the publishing firm of Ticknor, and forwarding to Concord, had been a remarkably short ten days! The books in the package were, presumably:
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• Rouquette’s LES SAVANES, POESIES AMERICAINES
November 13, Monday: Henry Thoreau replied, with the requested copy of A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, to the Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette.
Revd Adrian Rouquette Concord Mass. Nov. 13th 1854. Dear Sir I have just received your letter and the 3 works which accompanied it — and I make haste to send you a copy of “A Week — on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers” —by the same mail with this— I thank you heartily for the interest which you express in my book “Walden” — and also for the gift of your works — Though I have not had time to preuse the your books I have looked far enough to last attentively—and I am glad not all those in ou to be convinced that there are more than knew the I supposed in your section of our union any more than in my own are broad country devoted to something alone The very locality assigned to some of your better—than trade poems—suggest poetry appeals to the muse in me especially I am particularly pleased to receive so cordial hearty a greeting from in French— which was the language of my pa- ternal Grandfather— I assure you — it is Altogether not a little affecting to be thus reminded of the breadth & the destiny of our common country— I am sir yrs sincerely Henr D Thoreau HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1855
Writing under a pseudonym “Mucius,” Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette analyzed LAQUESTION AMERICAINE. (Nouvelle-Orleans, 1855).
February 7, Wednesday: A treaty was concluded between Russia and Japan setting out friendly relations, trade concerns and the territorial status of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin.
Henry Thoreau wrote to Thomas Cholmondeley in England a month after the Worcester lecture on “WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT”:
I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer—apparent want of success, but is it not a real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself and getting to a barrel of sermons which you must upset & begin again with.
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Dear Cholmondeley, I am glad to hear that you have arrived safely at Hodnet, and that there is a solid piece of ground of that name which can sup- port a man better than a floating plank in that to me as yet purely his- torical England. But have I not seen you with my own eyes, a piece of England herself? and has not your letter come out to me thence? I have now reason to believe that Salop is as real a place as Concord, with, at least, as good an underpinning of granite
Page 2 floating in liquid fire. I con- you gratulate ^ on having arrived safely at that floating isle, after your disagreeable passage in the steamer America. So are we not all making a passage, agreeable or dis- agreeable, in the steamer Earth, trusting to arrive at last at some less undu- lating Salop and Brother’s house? I cannot say that I am surprised to hear that you have joined the militia, after what I have heard from your lips, but I am glad to doubt if there will be occasion for your volunteering into the line. Perhaps I am thinking of the saying that HDT WHAT? INDEX
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it is always darkest just before day. I believe that
Page 3 it is only necessary that England be fully awakened to a sense of her position, in order that she may right herself--especially as the weather will soon cease to be her foe. I wish I could believe that the cause in which you are embarked is the cause of the people of England. However, I have no sympathy with the idleness that would contrast this fighting with the teachings of the pulpit, for perchance more true virtue is being practised at Sebastopol than in many years of peace. It is a pity that we seem to require a war from time to time ^ to assure us that there is any man- hood still left in man.
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not in any sense a politician. You who live in that snug and compact isle may dream of a glorious Com- monwealth, but I have some doubts whether I and the new [k]ing of the Sandwich Islands shall pull together. When I think of the gold-dig- gers and the Mormons, the slaves and slave-holders, and
Page 5 the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No—I am not patriotic; I shall not meddle with the gem of the Antilles; Gen. Quitman cannot count on my aid, [alas] [for] him.! nor can Gen. Pierce. I still take my daily walk or skate over Concord fields or meadows, and [on] the whole have more to do with nature than with man. We have not had much snow this winter, but have had some remarkably cold weather, the mercury Feb 6th not rising above 6° below zero during the day, and the next morning falling to 25°. Some ice is still 20 inches thick about us. A rise in the river has made
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& others, mingling his thunder with that of Niagara. Since his themes are England & [S]lavery some begin to claim him as a practical man. Channing still sits warming his 5 wits—his sixth you know is always limber—over that stove, with the dog down cellar. Lowell has just been appointed Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard University, in place of Longfellow, resigned, and will go very soon to spend another year in Europe before taking his seat.
Page 7 I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer—ap- parent want of success, but is it not a real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be li[k]ely to want me any- where again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself and getting to a barrel of sermons which you must upset & begin again with. My father & mother & sister all desire to be remembered to you, & trust that you will never come within range of Russian bullets. Of course I would rather think of you as settled down there in Shropshire,
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in the camp of the English people, making acquaintance with your men—striking at the root of the evil—perhaps assaulting that rampart of cotton bags that you tell of. But it makes no odds where a man goes or stays if he is only about his business. Let me hear from you, wherever you are, and believe me yours ever in the good fight,— whether before Sebastopol or under the Wreken— Henry D. Thoreau. ______Thomas Cholmondeley Esq Hodnet Market Drayton Shropshire England
Rouquette wrote a letter of support from Mandeville, St. Tammany, Louisiana to Mr. A.O. Brownson because Brownson’s Review was currently being attacked by the Catholic authorities at New Orleans:
MON CHER MONSIEUR: — Je ne puis pas résister plus longtemps au désir de vous écrire, pour vous témoigner ma haute estime, ma vive sympathie et mon entière adhésion aux doctrines que vous avez émises dans votre Revue. Depuis quelques mois, j’ai été, si non étonné, du moins indigné du ton de la presse catholique et des attaques diregées contre vous. C’est le sort ineévitable et glorieux de tout écrivain qui ose dire la vérité abstraction faite des susceptibilités individuelles ou nationales. Votre article sur le “Nativisme Américain” était nécessaire; je n’y trouve pas une syllabe à blâmer; la publication de cet article a été un acte de grand courage. Je sais, Monsieur, que mon opinion est peu de chose; mais vous me pardonnerez de vous l’exprimer au milieu des circonstances douloureuses où votra âme se trouve, quelque fortement trempe qu’elle soit. Je crois accomplir un devoir; je n’ai pu résister à l’impulsion de mon cœur. Je tiens ausse à vous dire, dans la crante que vous puissiez penser le contraire, que je n’ai jamais eu aucune part à la rédaction du “propagateur Catholique,” j’en désapprouve l’esprit et la forme, en beaucoup de choses. Ansi, donc, sache bien que je suis entièrement étranger à ce journal. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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Croyez, mon cher Monsieur, que je ne vous oublie pas dans mes prières, et veuillez recevoir de nouveau l’expression de ma haute considération et de ma profonde sympathie. Votre très-humble serviteur. A. ROUQUETTE. P.S. Je vous ai envoyé par la poste les “Saintes Voies de la Croix,” par Marie Bourdon. Ce volume contient, selon moi, toute la science des saints.
February 7. The coldest night for a long, long time was last. Sheets froze stiff about the faces. Cat CAT mewed to have the door opened, but was at first disinclined to go out. When she came in at nine she smelt of meadow-hay. We all took her up and smelled of her, it was so fragrant. Had cuddled in some barn. People dreaded to go to bed. The ground cracked in the night as if a powder-mill had blown up, and the timbers of the house also. My pail of water was frozen in the morning so that I could not break it. Must leave many buttons unbuttoned, owing to numb fingers. Iron was like fire in the hands. Thermometer at about 7.30 A. M. gone into the bulb, -19° at least. The cold has stopped the clock. Every bearded man in the street is a graybeard. Bread, meat, milk, cheese, etc., etc., all frozen. See the inside of your cellar door all covered and sparkling with frost like Golconda. Pity the poor who have not a large wood-pile. The latches are white with frost, and every nail- head in entries, etc., has a white cap. The chopper hesitates to go to the woods. Yet I see S. W— stumping past, three quarters of a mile, for his morning’s dram. Neighbor Smith’s thermometer stood at -26° early this morning. But this day is at length more moderate than yesterday R. Rice says that alewives used to go into Pelham Pond,—that you may go up Larned Brook and so into the pond by a ditch. His brother James skated from Sudbury to Billerica and by canal to Charlestown and back. He used to see where the otter had slid at Ware (Weir?) Hill, a rod down the steep bank, as if a thousand times, it was so smooth. After a thick snow had been falling in the river and formed a slosh on the surface, he could tell whether otter had been at work, by the holes in this slosh or snowy water where they had put up their heads while fishing. The surface would be all dotted with them. He had known musquash to make a canal to keep the water from freezing, a foot wide. Thinks otter make their track by drawing themselves along by the fore feet, obliterating the track of their feet. But may not the tail suffice to do this in light snow? Had seen a fox catching mice in a meadow. He would jump up and come down on a tussock, and then look round over the edge to see if he had scared any mice out of it. Two frog hawks (white rump and slaty wings, rather small hawk) have their nest regularly at his place in Sudbury. He once saw one—the male, he thinks— come along from the meadow with a frog in his claws. As he flew up toward and over the wood where the other was setting, he uttered a peculiar cry and, the other darting out, he let the frog drop two or three rods through the air, which the other caught He spoke of the Dunge Hole, meaning that deep hollow and swamp by the road from the Wheelers’ to White Pond. This probably the same that is referred to in the Town Records. Showed me a bunching up of the twigs of a larch from his swamp, perfectly thick, two feet in diameter, forty feet up a tree. This principle extends apparently to all the evergreens. You could not begin to see through this, though all the leaves of course are off Though the cold has been moderate to-day compared with yesterday, it has got more into the houses and barns, and the farmers complain more of it while attending to their cattle. This, i. e. yesterday, the 6th, will be remembered as the cold Tuesday. The old folks still refer to the Cold Friday, when they sat before great fires of wood four feet long, with a fence of blankets behind them, and water froze on the mantelpiece. But they say this is as cold as that was. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette became Vicar General at to the Cathedral of Saint Louis in New Orleans. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1859
After 14 year of service as a priest at the Cathedral of Saint Louis in New Orleans, and rising to the position
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to the banks of Bayou La Combe, where for 29 years he would function as a missionary among the Choctaw
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(The resemblance to our famous shanty, and the similar escape to a life of simplicity and devotion, might seem merely a coincidence — but note, the Abbé had written to Henry Thoreau expressing his appreciation, and he did have a copy of WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS and a copy of A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, in his personal library!)
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July 24, Sunday: Father Isaac Hecker C.S.P. wrote again to Abbé Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette in Louisiana. It would seem they were negotiating about the Louisiana Catholic priest coming to New-York and joining the order of the Paulist Fathers. For instance, the information was passed along that the community house for the CSP priests would be ready in October and Cardinal Alexander Barnabo had granted permission for the order to increase its numbers.2
July 24. P. M.– To Ledum Swamp. The hairy huckleberry still lingers in bloom, – a few of them. The white orchis will hardly open for a week. Mulgedium, how long? Near the ditch beyond Dennis’s Lupine Hill, a vaccinium near to Pennsylvanicum, perhaps a variety of it, with ripe fruit, little or no bloom, broader-leaved than that, and not shining beneath but somewhat glaucous.
Winter: Late in the year, Father Isaac Hecker’s Church of St. Paul the Apostle opened its doors in “Shantyopolis,” a poor Irish area on Manhattan’s West Side. Do not think of it, however, as the impressive “Saint Paul’s” edifice of the Paulist Fathers which now exists there.
2. For the full text of this letter consult John T. Ellis (ed.), DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORY (3 volumes; Wilmington, Delaware, 1987, Volume II, page 341). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1860
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“La Louisiane et la Nouvelle-Orléans” (“Louisiana and New Orleans”).
Also, his L’ANTONIADE, OU LA SOLITUDE AVEC DIEU (TROIS ÂGES) POÈME ÉRÉMITIQUE (Nouvelle-Orleans: Impr. de L. Marchand, 1860).
Also, his PROÈMES PATRIOTIQUES. SUITE DE L’ANTONIADE. POÈME ÉRÉMITIQUE (New Orleans: L. Marchand, 1860).
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1871
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette’s LE VINGT-CINQUIÈME ANNIVERSAIRE DU PONTIFICAT DE PIO NONO, 17 JUIN (New Orleans LA: Imprimerie du Propagateur catholique), a poem which he signed as “Chahta-Ima, missionnaire catholique parmi les indiens.” HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1879
Writing under his pseudonym “Chahta-Ima,” which in Choctaw means “one of us,” Adrien Rouquette published a short novel in response to François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand’s ATALA, entitled LA NOUVELLE ATALA; OU, LA FILLE DE L’ESPRIT; LEGENDE INDIENNE (THE NEW ATALA, OR DAUGHTER OF THE SPIRIT; AN INDIAN LEGEND) (Nouvelle-Orleans: Imprimerie du Propagateur Catholique, 1879). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1880
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette defended the Creoles against George W. Cable’s GRANDISSIMES in his CRITICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN ABOO AND CABOO ON A NEW BOOK, OR A GRANDISSIME ASCENSION (Mingo City [New Orleans]: Great publishing house of Sam Slick Allspice). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1883
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette met and became friends with Lafcadio Hearn while he was on his way (more or less) from Cincinnati to Japan. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1886
Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette became less than lucid, and unable any longer to care for himself. He was taken to the Hotel Dieu to be watched over by the Sisters of Charity. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1887
July 15, Friday: Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette had become again lucid for a few days. He died while hard at work on a dictionary of the Choctaw language. It may well be that he was buried beneath this tree:
In this year W.T. Francis prepared sheet music in honor of Rouquette, “Zozo Mokeur,” Paroles de Chatah- HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1913
S.B. Elder (ed.), LIFE OF THE ABBÉ ADRIEN ROUQUETTE “CHAHTA-IMA” (New Orleans: Bienville Assembly, Knights of Columbus). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1942
Eleanor Van Trump Glenn’s CALENDAR OF THE ROUQUETTE MATERIAL IN THE ARCHDIOCESAN ARCHIVES OF New Orleans (Masters thesis, Tulane University, 1942).
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1947
Dagmar-Renshaw Lebreton’s CHAHTA-IMA, THE LIFE OF ADRIEN ROUQUETTE (Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State UP).
“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING, HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others, such as extensive quotations and reproductions of images, this “read-only” computer file contains a great deal of special work product of Austin Meredith, copyright 2014. Access to these interim materials will eventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup some of the costs of preparation. My hypercontext button invention which, instead of creating a hypertext leap through hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems— allows for an utter alteration of the context within which one is experiencing a specific content already being viewed, is claimed as proprietary to Austin Meredith — and therefore freely available for use by all. Limited permission to copy such files, or any material from such files, must be obtained in advance in writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Please contact the project at
“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.” – Remark by character “Garin Stevens” in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST
Prepared: June 13, 2014 HDT WHAT? INDEX
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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT
GENERATION HOTLINE
This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.
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