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Jean Talon, Count d'Orsainville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ talɔ̃]; January 8, 1626 – November 23, 1694) was a French colonial administrator who served as the first Intendant of New France. Talon was appointed by King Louis XIV and his minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert , to serve as the Intendant of Justice, Public Order and Finances in ...
The Intendant of New France was an administrative position in the French colony of New France. He controlled the colony's entire civil administration. He gave particular attention to settlement and economic development, and to the administration of justice. The office of the Intendant of New France was created by Louis XIV. In 1663, Louis and ...
The Merchant Flag of France (1689 design), inspiration for the flag of Quebec. In 1650, New France had seven hundred colonists and Montreal had only a few dozen settlers. Because the First Nations people did most of the work of beaver hunting, the company needed few French employees.
It was organized by Jean Talon, the first Intendant of New France, between 1665 and 1666. Talon and the French Minister of the Marine Jean-Baptiste Colbert had brought the colony of New France under direct royal control in 1663, and Colbert wished to make it the centre of the French colonial empire. To do this he needed to know the state of the ...
5.2 1665 to 1672 : concessions by the intendant Talon. 5.3 1672 to 1682 : ... List of Seigneuries of New France by order of the first concession.
1712 – New France extends from Newfoundland to Lake Superior and from the Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. 1712 – Michel Bégon becomes Intendant of New France; 1713 – French colonists in all of North America numbered about twelve thousand, while British colonists numbered almost one million. 1713 – British destroy Fort St. Louis when ...
In the case of New France, Maurepas wanted "a more obedient, down-to-earth and efficient man with whom to replace Claude-Thomas Dupuy," the intendant from 1725 to 1728. [9] On March 8, 1729, Maurepas formally commissioned Hocquart to perform the functions of Intendant in remote New France as commissaire-ordonnateur , a rank below that of ...
Around this time, the office of Intendant of New France was also established. The intendant was to be in charge of police, justice, and finance in the colony. Shortly after the post's creation in 1665, the intendant began to sit on the Sovereign Council, though its place on the council was not made official until 1675.