by Hernán Cortés · Librairie François Maspero, Paris · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707111272
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«La Conquête du Mexique» is the historical account by Hernán Cortés, published by Librairie François Maspero in paperback (242 pages, in French).
Hernán Cortés recounts in the first person the campaign that led to the fall of the Aztec empire, from the landing on the coasts of Mexico to the siege of Tenochtitlan. Written as a report to King Charles V, these pages offer the conqueror's own perspective on the events and on the peoples the Spaniards encountered.
The 1979 edition includes a translation by M. Vallée and an introduction by Bernard Grunberg, under the FM/La Découverte imprint.
For readers interested in the history of the Americas and in first-hand accounts of the colonial period.
Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
