History of French America (monograph)

the History of French America is a book written in collaboration by two French, Gilles Havard and Cécile Vidal, published in 2003 at the Editions Flammarion. A republication re-examined and corrected in 2006 followed.

The two authors recall the evolution of the French colonial efforts in North America and with the Brésil. Being delayed with exploration, the settlement, the colonial institutions, the free-Amerindians ratio, the cities, the colonial trade, the construction of new companies then to the fall and the fallen through rebirth of the French Empire of America, the volume of 863 pages is rich in information. This test has also the merit of not galvauder the colonial companies specific to the Louisiana (Pays of Illinois and Low-Louisiana) and to the Pays of in Top (current Basin of the Big lakes) to the profit of the colony laurentienne located between Montreal and Quebec already known at the time under the name of Canada.

Quotations

“The whole to lie in an old house for merchants voirement still a fortress and does not know if it is not in derision that it made it keep by the two poor women which, for sentinels, leave only two hens ¹ there. ” summary of the station of Quebec in [[1626]]

“The conquest of Canada indeed cost two billion books (of France) England. Benjamin Franklin estimated that it had been less expensive to buy News-France than to conquer it! ²”

References

¹ Gilles Havard and Cécile Vidal, “ History of French America ”, Paris, Flammarion, 2006, p.

² ibid , p. 648.

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