Knowledge
The military and commercial conquest of the “New World” involved extraordinary encounters that upended what European scholars considered to be self-evident truths. The history of colonization therefore involves not only m...
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A Louis XV Peace Medal that became a Huron-Wendat object
The peace medals given to the natives in Canada by the representatives of both French and British colonial powers bear material witness to the alliances that the foundations of the country were based on. If France was abl...
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Cultures
Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, the French brought ways of being and doing to the territories of the New World which they were colonising, inhabiting or exploring. These migrants thus became agents of vital cultu...
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Civil and religious architecture in New France and Louisiana
Much of the civil and religious architecture in French North America was the result of collaboration between royal engineers, who created the designs, and civil architects, who directed the construction of buildings as su...
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The BnF's partners cannot be held responsible for the points of view expressed in articles provided by contributors for the digital library "France in the Americas", or for content which may be present in the digital reso...
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The shared heritage collection
The France in the Americas site is part of the “shared heritage” collection which, thanks to the collections in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrates the bonds between France and the rest of the world.
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