Fontaine Leval, a French Settlement on the Maine Coast, 1791.

The article presents an historical profile of the late 18th-century French colonial settlement of Fontaine Leval in Maine. Details are given outlining the U.S. policies concerning property sales to French refugees during the 1790s. The particular negotiations held between U.S. officials Henry Knox and William Duer and the Frenchwoman Madame Bacler de Leval and her associate Jean Baptiste de la Roche are analyzed in depth. Reproductions of their original correspondence manuscripts in French are also included.