Pain Court => St. Louis?

[Michael Mccafferty]

Does this imply that St. Louis is originally a Spanish designation for the
place? That would be interesting.

Michael


On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Koontz John E wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Rory M Larson wrote:
> > Does anyone have a sense of when the site was still
> > Pain Court, and when the name shifted to St. Louis?
> > Was this shift at the time of St. Louis' foundation
> > in 1764, or was it not until later?
>
> As far as I can tell the site was unnamed until the town was founded as
> St. Louis.  The nickname followed on the heels of the formal name.
>
> Houck, p. 67, quotes in a letter of October 31, 1769, from Pedro Piernas,
> lieut. commanding in St.  Louis, to Alexander O'Reilly, captain general
> and governor of Louisiana, the lines:  "I set out for Misera [= St.
> Genevieve or Santa Genoveva] on the 6th of December. ...  and could not
> ... reach Misera until the 29th [of January] ... on the 30th [of February]
> I reached Paincour, called San Luis, the second French settlment, which is
> 20 leagues from the first."
>
> JEK
>
>
>

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