The Makers of Canada: Champlain by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne
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Laval University, of Quebec, had it printed in French, with the designs,
coloured for the most part, with the complete works of Champlain. This manuscript is supposed to have been preserved by a collateral descendant of Aymar de Chastes. [3] Tadousac means _breast_, and is derived from the Montagnais _Totouchac_. Father Jérôme Lalemant says that the Indians called the place _Sadilege_. [4] This volume is entitled _Des Sauvages ou Voyage de Samuel Champlain de Brouage, fait en la Nouvelle France, l'an mil six cent trois ... A Paris ... 1604_. Extremely rare. The original of the first edition is kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; this is the only copy known. This volume contains a dedication to Charles de Montmorency, admiral of France, a letter in verse from the Sieur de la Franchise, and an extract from the _Privilège du Roi_, dated November 15th, 1603, signed by Brigard. The second edition does not differ much from the preceding, and its title bears the date 1604. Purchas's _Pilgrims_ contains an English version of this last edition. We find a synopsis of it in the _Mercure François_, 1609, in the preface to the former called _Chronologie Septennaire de l'Histoire de la paix entre les rois de France et d'Espagne, 1598-1608_. This historical part has been borrowed by Victor Palma Cayet for Champlain's Voyage, and its title is: _Navigation des Français en la Nouvelle France dite Canada_. |
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