Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 17th century, Saint-Louis was urbanised in the mid-19th century. It was the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957 and played an important cultural and ...

What to Read Before You Go: Willa Cather's historical masterpiece Shadows on the Rock (1931) is set in 17th-century Quebec, a bastion of French civilization in an isolated and unforgiving wilderness.