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Four themes
• French pattern of diversity versus centralization [Wars of Religion1562-98]
• Long series of false starts• Persistence of Samuel Champlain• France’s successful encounter with Indians:
tolerance
France’s Atlantic Port Cities• Highly
independent, and well-armed
• No government navy
• Normandy: Dieppe, Saint-Malo, Honfleur, Rouen
Three sets of false starts
• Canada, 1534-42• Brazil, 1555-57• Florida 1562-65
• Then, success in 1630s
Jacques Cartier 1491-1557
• Experienced seaman
• May have accompanied Verrazzano
As imagined in the 1800s
Cartier: Mistakes in 1534?
• Came to reconnoiter the Saint Lawrence
• Encountered 200 Iroquois fishing for mackerel
• Kidnapped several and took them to France
Cartier Mistakes in 1535
• Sailed up river to “Hochelaga” the future site of Quebec;
• Spent the winter, suffered scurvy, (Indians showed him how to cure it)
• Kidnapped more Indians, including their leader Donaconna and sons
Cartier: mistakes in 1542• Noble
Roberval and 500 colonists
• Failed “gold”• Kidnapped 10
Iroquois• Cartier and
Roberval returned, leaving settlers
Gaspar Coligny (1519-1572) : Admiral of France
• France’s most powerful Protestant
• Encouraging (failed) Huguenot colonies
Brazil: “France Antartique”
• “Fort Coligny” • 1555-1560• Island in the
bay• 600 soldiers
and colonists• Driven out by
Portuguese
1562: Jean Ribault and Fort Caroline (Florida)
• Religious Wars
• Huguenots only
• Ran out of food
• Mutiny• Some built a
boat to sail home
1564: 2nd attempt
• Ribault and Rene Laudonnière
• 10 months of food• Crops failed• Decided to attack
Spanish at Cuba• Spanish retaliated by
killing all members of the colony
Samuel Champlain (1575-1635)
• Illegitimate son of Henri IV?• Born into a Huguenot family• Veteran of Wars of Religion• Artist • First scientific cartographer in
the Americas• Spy in Spanish America