Tessouat whom Champlain visited in 1613; d. 1636
Champlain’s arrival on the St. Lawrence (29 May 1603) he and François Gravé Du
Champlain the governors had held the widest powers. Although the royal statutes of 1647 and 1648 had set up a council with legislative, executive, and judicial powers, this council nevertheless
of Dieppe, one of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés who had left France to relieve Champlain at Quebec
chaplain to Lake Champlain in 1666. Later, in 1674, he tried to exercise a calming influence in the conflict that sprang up between Governor
Champlain and Du Gua de Monts discovered the river in 1604; d. before 1616
Acadian coasts as far as the Saint John River, and brought back to Champlain specimens taken from two mines. He
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On the documentary sources see PAC Report, 1883; 1894; 1912, 18, 23–24. Champlain, Works (Biggar), V, VI, Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, I
Champlain tells us, was that “he would rather have died than consent to such baseness as to betray his King.”
Since his urging and pleading were
which corroborates and adds further detail to the writings of Samuel de Champlain, and which provides us with
Champlain. Prior to his appointment as governor-general of New France on 23 March 1665, he was governor of Thionville in Lorraine. He arrived at Quebec with the intendant, Jean
to inform Champlain of his arrival and, instead of remaining in safety in some port, he tried to go up the
Champlain’s advice, she and her family (i.e., her third husband, her 15-year-old son Guillaume, her surviving daughter
, Relation of a voyage to Port Royal in Acadia or New France, ed. J. C. Webster (Champlain Soc., XX, 1933), 152. Jug. et délib. IV, 327. Mémoires des commissaires, II
the Compagnie de La Nouvelle-France, or the Compagnie des Cent-Associés as it is often called. Participants included Richelieu himself, Champlain, and Razilly, who was appointed naval commander for
Port-au-Mouton for his second vessel to make rendezvous, Ralluau and Champlain used the opportunity to make
. She then taught at Champlain, but in 1678 and 1683 she was at Ville-Marie. Her brother Nicolas, a lawyer in the Parlement of Paris, died in 1687, leaving her all his fortune. She donated it to the
PÉZARD DE LA TOUSCHE CHAMPLAIN, ÉTIENNE, soldier, named to the governorship of Montreal, seigneur of Champlain, colonizer; baptized