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 ...

Catholic missions among Native Americans, pursued by Jesuits, Récollets, and other clergy and religious from France, shaped the political, social, and religious history of New France in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...

In slave societies, a legal category was established between slaveholders and enslaved people composed of freedpeople and free people of color.

  In the 17th and 18th centuries, France created an Atlantic empire grounded as much in slavery as in colonialism.