Champlain

[noetsi]

Originally Posted by Trudy Rose

From what I have read, the French did need to have some permanent settlements...Port Royal and then Quebec, as the British were starting to get their foot in the door in Mass and a few other places. But they seem to have gone about the settlements with the approval of the Indians, unlike the British.

Its not that the French never had permament settlements, obviously they did. But they had far fewer and unlike the English did not send large numbers of farmers to displace native Americans from much of their land.

[Irishtom29]

This puts me in mind of Charles Langlade and his Chippewa and Ottawa retainers eating the heart of the Old Briton, the Miami leader at *****willany.

Odd, the filter won't display the name of the Miami town in Ohio that Langlade came down from Mackinac to destroy.

[Thyra]

As I get deeper into the book I was really shocked to see
Cardinal Richelieu pop up with so much influence in the Champlain saga. I know of him from the Thirty Year War and did not realize he had his hands into the New World as well..I certainly learned something new today

[noetsi]

Originally Posted by Trudy Rose

As I get deeper into the book I was really shocked to see
Cardinal Richelieu pop up with so much influence in the Champlain saga. I know of him from the Thirty Year War and did not realize he had his hands into the New World as well..I certainly learned something new today

Several points:

1) Richelieu was involved in anything the French state was.
2) He was deeply interested in the economy, particularly foreign trade. He is known as the father of the french navy.

I doubt there were any senior appointments that he was not involved in and he would have been particularly involved in New France.