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1763 had opened with promises of revenge and grandeur. It unfolded in disorder and precipitation. In early 1764, while the first dark prelimi- naries of the epidemic were being addressed in Guiana, the Court was eagerly awaiting the first echoes of success.
What do you think of the beautiful colony of Cayenne, for which we have spent considerable sums? Fourteen thousand men were sent and only fifteen hundred remain [...] The king is to be greatly pitied for being so shamefully served! D’Alembert, Letter to Voltaire, April 27, 1765.
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Jules Flammermont (1888–1898), Remontrances du Parlement de Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Imprimerienationale, pp. 925–937.
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Godfroy, M.F. (2015). The Trap is Sprung. In: Kourou and the Struggle for a French America. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363473_11
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