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Book
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Revised edition
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Little, Brown and Company
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Publication Date
1902
Publisher location
Boston, MA
Abstract/ Summary
The subject to which the proposed series will be devoted is that of " France in the New World," — the attempt of Feudalism, Monarchy, and Rome to master a continent where, at this hour, half a million of bayonets are vindicating the ascendency of a regulated freedom; — Feudalism still strong in life, though enveloped and overborne by new-born Centralization; Monarchy in the flush of triumphant power; Rome, nerved by disaster, springing with renewed vitality from ashes and corruption, and ranging the earth to reconquer abroad what she had lost at home. These banded powers, pushing into the wilderness their indomitable soldiers and devoted priests, unveiled the secrets of the barbarous continent, pierced the forests, traced and mapped out the streams, planted their emblems, built their forts, and claimed all as their own. New France was all head. Under king, noble, and Jesuit, the lank, lean body would not thrive. Even commerce wore the sword, decked itself with badges of nobility, aspired to forest seigniories and hordes of savage retainers.
Repository Citation
Parkman, Francis, "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1902). Maine History Documents. 30.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistory/30
Publisher Statement
Parkman, Francis. 1865. Pioneers of France in the New world. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
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