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Starting in 1627, it was the New France Company "Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France" who administered New France. Saint-Joseph (1626) Godefroy (1633) Hertel (1633) de Beauport (1634) des Jésuites (1634) La Clousterie (1634) Du Buisson (1634) La Citière (1635) de la Côte-de-Beaupré (1636) de l'Île de Montréal (1636) Île-Jésus (1636)
A typical layout for a feudal manor in New France [1]. The manorial system of New France, known as the seigneurial system (French: Régime seigneurial, pronounced [ʁeʒim sɛɲœʁjal]), was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire. [1]
New France (French: Nouvelle-France, pronounced [nuvɛl fʁɑ̃s]) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. A vast viceroyalty, New France ...
Michel-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière was born in 1723 at Quebec, the youngest son of Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière. [1] His mother, Marie-Francoise (1695–1723), was the daughter of Captain François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes and Françoise-Thérèse (1670-1698), daughter of Nicholas Dupont de Neuville (1632–1716).
On 15 January 1634, Giffard was granted one of New France's the first seigneuries and he returned to the colony accompanied by his wife and two children. The colony - with Samuel de Champlain still as Governor - was continuing to experience a lack of immigration.
Baptised 14 November 1641, in the Church of Saint-Nicholas-des-Champs in Paris, he was the son of Louis-Théandre Chartier de Lotbinière and Élisabeth d'Amours de Clignancourt (1613–1690), daughter of Louis d'Amours de Louvieres (died 1640), Sieur de Serain, Chief Councillor to King Henry IV of France at the Grand Châtelet, Paris.
Born in the Quebec City in 1748, he was the son of Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière, and his wife Louise-Madeleine (1726–1809), daughter of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1682–1756), engineer-in-chief of New France.
Charles de Bourbon (3 November 1566 – 1 November 1612) was a French prince du sang and military commander during the struggles over religion and the throne in late 16th century France. A first cousin of King Henry IV of France , he was the son of the Huguenot leader Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé and his second wife, Françoise d ...