Historical March 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, who arrived in St. Louis in 1764, the year the fur-trading post was established on the Mississippi River, fulfilled the responsibilities of parent, homemaker, business manager, and social leader.
She is representative of the powerful women decision-makers in the Louisiana Territory, the topic of the free half-day conference, “And She Generally Decides: Women in Mid-Mississippi Valley Creole Culture.” The program honors Women’s History Month and will be held on Saturday, March 14 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Missouri Historical Society in the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park.
Reservations by calling 361-9265. Photo from an oilon-wood painting attributed to Francois de Guyol de Guiran in the art collections of the Missouri Historical Society.
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Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau. Photo from an oil-on-wood painting attributed to Francois de Guyol de Guiran in the art collections of the Missouri Historical Society. The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1987, page 3.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1987.
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