What you are trying is not possible with the views (from your code it seems you misunderstood the way they work - take a second look at the docs here).

You can solve your problem with a multi_array_ref and a different storage ordering. Here is an example:

   using namespace boost;
   typedef multi_array<int,2> arr2;
   typedef multi_array_ref<int,2> rarr2;
   typedef array<arr2::index, 2> shape2;
   //
   // create and fill array
   //
   shape2 sh = {3,4};
   arr2 foo(sh);
   for (int i=0; i!=sh[0]; ++i)
      for (int j=0; j!=sh[1]; ++j)
         foo[i][j] = i + j*10;
   //
   // create a reference to transposed shape
   //
   shape2 shT = {4,3};
   rarr2 fooT(foo.data(), shT, fortran_storage_order());
   for (int i=0; i!=sh[0]; ++i)
      for (int j=0; j!=sh[1]; ++j)
         assert( foo[i][j] == fooT[j][i] );