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An abundance of travel narratives from New France, and the consecration of a colonial Canadian canon beyond the realm of fiction, long overshadowed a vast corpus of exoticism. In the early 20th century Gilbert Chinard red...

The narratives written by French observers— missionaries, administrators, officers, or naturalists— in the 17th and 18thcenturies about the Indigenous people of North America form an impressively large and detailed corpus...

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, who was born in Montreal in 1680 and died in Paris in 1767, is often presented by historians as the “father of Louisiana”. Given his wanderings and fields of action, he would better fi...

From 1699 to now, Mardi Gras has punctuated the daily lives of the Louisianans for three centuries.  

The ingénieurs du Roi and the maréchal de Vauban. Royal Engineers. Gaspard Chaussegros de Léry. Étienne Verrier.

Marie Guyart was born in Tours in 1599 and died in Quebec in 1672. She was canonized in 2014, an extraordinary destiny for a remarkable woman. She founded the first convent that educated women in North America, and was a ...