The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain

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Charles W. Colby. The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain

The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

CHAMPLAIN'S EARLY YEARS

PORTRAIT OF CHAMPLAIN ASCRIBED TO MONCORNET (See Bibliographical Note, P. 154) From Laverdière's Champlain in M'Gill University Library

CHAPTER II

COASTS EXPLORED BY CHAMPLAIN, 1604–7

CHAPTER III

CHAMPLAIN AT QUEBEC

CHAMPLAIN'S DRAWING OF THE HABITATION OF QUEBEC

HENRI DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ, VICEROY OF NEW FRANCE. From Laverdière's Champlain in M'Gill University Library

CHAPTER IV

CHAMPLAIN IN THE WILDERNESS

THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, 1609. From a drawing by J. D. Kelly in the Château de Ramezay, Montreal

CHAMPLAIN'S ROUTE, 1615–16

CHAPTER V

CHAMPLAIN'S LAST YEARS

CHAPTER VI

CHAMPLAIN'S WRITINGS AND CHARACTER

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Original Text

English Translations

General Literature

Portrait

INDEX

Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty. at the Edinburgh University Press

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA

THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED

Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON

THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA

PART I. THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS

PART II. THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE

PART III. THE ENGLISH INVASION

PART IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA

PART V. THE RED MAN IN CANADA

PART VI. PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST

PART VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM

PART VIII. THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY

PART IX. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

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Charles W. Colby

Published by Good Press, 2019

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[1] It is hard to define Champlain's social status in a single word. Parkman, besides styling him 'a Catholic gentleman,' speaks of him elsewhere as being 'within the pale of the noblesse.' On the other hand, the Biographie Saintongeoise says that he came from a family of fishermen. The most important facts would seem to be these. In Champlain's own marriage contract his father is styled 'Antoine de Champlain, Capitaine de la Marine.' The same document styles Champlain himself 'Samuel de Champlain.' A petition in which he asks for a continuation of his pension (circ. 1630) styles him in its opening words 'Le Sieur de Champlain' and afterwards 'le dit sieur Champlain' in two places, while in six places it styles him 'le dit sieur de Champlain.' Le Jeune calls him 'Monsieur de Champlain.' It is clear that he was not a noble. It is also clear that he possessed sufficient social standing to warrant the use of de. On the title-page of all his books after 1604 he is styled the 'Sieur de Champlain.'

[2] He served chiefly in Brittany against the Spanish allies of the League, and reached the rank of quartermaster.

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