Robert S. Weddle is an award-winning historian and the author of more than a dozen books on the Spanish and French colonial history of Texas and the Gulf Coast.FranÇois Lagarde is Associate Professor of French at the University of Texas at Austin and the editor of The French in Texas.

• PrefacePart I: Aimable's Story 1. Voyage of Destiny2. Makings of Disaster3. The Parting4. The Lost CausePart II: The Evidence 5. La Salle's Reports A. The Official Account of the Shipwreck: ProcÈs verbalB. La Salle's Letter to the Marquis de Seignelay6. Charge and Rebuttal7. The Hearing8. The SummationPart III: Postscript 9. The Search for AimableNotesBibliographyIndex

Robert S. Weddle is an award-winning historian and the author of more than a dozen books on the Spanish and French colonial history of Texas and the Gulf Coast.FranÇois Lagarde is Associate Professor of French at the University of Texas at Austin and the editor of The French in Texas.

• PrefacePart I: Aimable's Story 1. Voyage of Destiny2. Makings of Disaster3. The Parting4. The Lost CausePart II: The Evidence 5. La Salle's Reports A. The Official Account of the Shipwreck: ProcÈs verbalB. La Salle's Letter to the Marquis de Seignelay6. Charge and Rebuttal7. The Hearing8. The SummationPart III: Postscript 9. The Search for AimableNotesBibliographyIndex

Robert S. Weddle is an award-winning historian and the author of more than a dozen books on the Spanish and French colonial history of Texas and the Gulf Coast.FranÇois Lagarde is Associate Professor of French at the University of Texas at Austin and the editor of The French in Texas.

• PrefacePart I: Aimable's Story 1. Voyage of Destiny2. Makings of Disaster3. The Parting4. The Lost CausePart II: The Evidence 5. La Salle's Reports A. The Official Account of the Shipwreck: ProcÈs verbalB. La Salle's Letter to the Marquis de Seignelay6. Charge and Rebuttal7. The Hearing8. The SummationPart III: Postscript 9. The Search for AimableNotesBibliographyIndex