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Title The chevalier de Montmagny, 1601-1657 : first governor of New France / Jean-Claude Dubé ; translated by Elizabeth Rapley
Published Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, 2005 (Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (430 pages
Series Collection Amérique française, 1480-4735 ; 10
Collection Amérique française ; 10. 1480-4735
Contents Table of Contents; List of tables; List of maps; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of abbreviations used in the tables; List of abbreviations used for the notes; Chapter 1. The Ancestry of the Chevalier de Montmagny; Chapter 2. The Huault de Montmagny Family in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 3. A First Direction: The Robe; Chapter 4. Corsair for Christ; Chapter 5. From the Mediterranean to the Saint Lawrence; Chapter 6. Onontio; Chapter 7. "Wise and Prudent Conduct" in the Internal Management of the Colony; Chapter 8. Reality and Fiction
Chapter 9. On the Service of the Order of Malta in the AntillesBy way of a conclusion: "Faitz bien et laisse dire"; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary "In The Chevalier de Montmagny, Jean-Claude Dube documents the extraordinary career of Charles Huault de Montmagny, first governor of the colony of New France. This well-documented study - which in its original French edition was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award in 1999 - adds an important dimension to our understanding of the social, religious, and political history of New France."--Jacket
Notes Translation of: Le chevalier de Montmagny
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Montmagny, Charles Huault de, 1583?-1653?
Montmagny, Charles Huault de, 1601-1657
Subject Knights of Malta -- Biography
SUBJECT Knights of Malta fast
Subject Governors -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Governors
SUBJECT Canada -- Biography
France -- Biography
Subject Canada
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Rapley, Elizabeth
ISBN 9780776617053
0776617052
9780776630281
0776630288
9780776605593
0776605593