Part I. French Illinois
The land
The native peoples
The settlers
The slaves
The French settlements
The administration: military and civilian
The four Forts de Chartres
The convoys
The end of French Illinois
Part II. Commandants of Fort de Chartres
First commandment: Pierre-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriand (1718-24)
Second and fifth commandant: Claude-Charles Dutisné (1724-25, 1729-30)
Third commandant: Jean-Charles de Pradel (interim 1725)
Fourth commandant: Pierre-Charles Desliette (1725-29)
Sixth commandant: Robert Groston de St. Ange (1730-33)
Seventh commandant: Pierre d'Artaguiette d'Itouralde (1733-36)
Eighth commandant: Alphonse de la Buissonnière (1736-40)
Ninth and eleventh commandant: Jean-Baptiste Benoist de St. Clair (1740-42, 1749-51)
Tenth commandant: Jean-Gaspard de Bertet de la Clue (1742-49)
Twelfth commandant: Jean-Jacques de Macarty Mactique (1751-60)
Thirteenth commandant: Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villiers (1760-63)
Fourteenth and last French commandant: Louis Groston de St. Ange de Bellerive (1764-65)
Part III. People of Fort de Chartres
Marie Rouensa: the mother of French Illinois
Étienne de Véniard de Bourgmont and Ignon Ouaconisen (Françoise Missouri): an Indian in Paris
Terrisse de Ternan: a restless and worrisome personality
Claude Chetivau: the man who wanted to go to Canada
(François-) Pierre Boucher de Boucherville: escape to Fort de Chartres
Alphonse de la Buissonnière and Marie Thérèse Trudeau: marriage woes
Jacques-Sernan Voisin: a hero of the Chickasaw wars?
Jean Ducoutray: the chicken thief of Kaskaskia
Jean-Bernard Bossu: officer and travel writer
Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave: a man of many flags.