A table was an important piece of furniture for settlers in French Illinois. It provided a clean surface for mealtimes, as well as for work and play. Usually it was made of cherry or pine. A square table with lathe-turned legs and a drawer was valued at 25 livres in the estate inventory of Marie Catherine Baron in Kaskaskia, 1748.

Reproduction based on examples of eighteenth-century tables found in Quebec
Made by Franklin Woodworking, Prairie du Rocher, IL, 1991

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