The development of a hydrographic school in Normandy during the 16th century was an expression of this northwestern French province’s maritime dynamism. 

King François I of France entrusted Jacques Cartier with three Atlantic voyages (1534-1542), hoping to contest the Spanish naval monopoly and find a new route to the riches of Asia. Although Cartier failed to find spices ...

The North American territory claimed by France was always a multilingual space – a huge tract of North America populated by indigenous peoples speaking languages belonging primarily to the Algonquian and Iroquoian familie...

Far from presenting a happy image of colonization, Rameau and Fuzelier question the myth of the good savage and question again the links between Americans and Europeans.