During his six-month stay in St. Emilione, France, he recorded his surroundings in several small pencil drawings and watercolor paintings.
There he met Clarence C. Rosenkranz, an artist of the impressionist style, who helped him mix color and express his feelings through art.
Francis and Florence Page Jaques spent time camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota.
Sales from these two books helped fund the Jaqueses' involvement in the conservation project at Susie Island in Lake Superior.
Upon his death Florence completed and arranged for publication of his biography, Francis Lee Jaques: Artist of the Wilderness World.
She donated his remaining artworks to the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis and the Saint Louis County Historical Society, in Duluth, Minnesota.