Plaque, Musee du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France
Cast of the Stone of D'Iberville, 1981, originally made as a commemoration of the New France colony in Mississippi in 1699, discovered by Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, in the Musee du Nouveau Monde, or New World Museum, opened 1982 in the Hotel Fleuriau, an 18th century mansion home to merchant Aime-Benjamin Fleuriau, 1707-1877, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The stone, carved in a blast cobblestone, was buried near the beach and rediscovered in the 1920s at Fort Maurepas. The museum explores links between France and the Americas, including the slave trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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