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On July 8, 1763, Préfontaine returned to Cayenne. The new settlement had not yet been created, but the “old” one, as Choiseul called it, was not yet dead. It intended to put up a fight against the notorious incom- petence of several key figures and against the rumored disease that was greatly feared — everyone still vividly remembered the thousands of French deaths during the siege of Havana. D’Orvilliers withdrew, using failing health as his excuse. Eight years earlier, a rheumatoidal episode had left him incapacitated for six months. He would die the following May 1764.1 Everyone awaited Turgot.2
Ainsi de leurs flatteurs, les rois sont les victimes Of their flatterers, kings are victims. Racine, La Thébaïde, Act V, scene 2
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Olivier Puaux (1997) Archéologie et Histoire du Sinnamary du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, p. 51.
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Godfroy, M.F. (2015). Kourou. In: Kourou and the Struggle for a French America. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363473_10
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