Essays in The French Place in the Bay of Islands are written by the following authors:
The French Place in the Bay of Islands, back cover
- Kate Martin – Introducing the French Place
- Anne Salmond - Marion du Fresne
- Pā Henare Tate – Traditional Maori Spirituality in Encounter with Christianity
- Ian Hunter – Kororareka and the Emerging Entrepreneurial Spirit
- Hazel Petrie - Growth and Dominance: Patterns of Approach
- Garry Clayton - Francophobia in New Zealand
- Peter Lineham – Paihia versus Kororareka – Protestant versus Catholic
- Peter Tremewan, Hélène Serabien, Giselle Larcombe – Father Garin in Kororareka and Mangakahia, 1841-1847
- Peter Low – Bishop Pompallier and Te Tiriti
- Manuka Henare - Maori Literacy and the Making of a Nation
- Dominique Varry - Lyon as a Capital of Catholic Printing in the 19th century
- Edward Clisby – The Marist Brothers in the Life of the French Catholic Mission
- Jessie Munro - Ko wai a Peata? Ko Hoki ia
- Michael O’Meeghan - The First Wave of French Marists
- Jeremy Salmond - Conservation of the Pompallier Printing House
- Ken Scadden – Yvert: Pompallier’s Energetic Printer
- Phillip Parkinson – Errors of Rome’ and Protestant ‘Paper Pellets’
- Lisa Matisso-Smith - Kororareka Kiore and Russell Rats