Crusaders of New France
Crusaders of New France
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CHAPTER VIII SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADA From the beginning of the colony there ran in the minds of Frenchofficialdom the idea that the social order should rest upon aseigneurial basis. Historians have commonly attributed to Richelieuthe genesis of New World feudalism, but without good reason, for itsbeginnings antedated the time of the great minister. The charterissued to the ill-starred La Roche in 1598 empowered him "to grantlands to gentlemen in the forms of fiefs and seigneuries, " and thediff...erent viceroys who had titular charge of the colony before theCompany of One Hundred Associates took charge in 1627 had similarpowers. Several seigneurial grants in the region of Quebec had, infact, been made before Richelieu first turned his attention to thecolony.
Nor was the adoption of this policy at all unnatural. Despite itsincreasing obsolescence, the seigneurial system was still strong inFrance and dominated the greater part of the kingdom. The nobility andeven the throne rested upon it.
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CHAPTER VIII SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADA From the beginning of the colony there ran in the minds of Frenchofficialdom the idea that the social order should rest upon aseigneurial basis. Historians have commonly attributed to Richelieuthe genesis of New World feudalism, but without good reason, for itsbeginnings antedated the time of the great minister. The charterissued to the ill-starred La Roche in 1598 empowered him "to grantlands to gentlemen in the forms of fiefs and seigneuries, " and thediff...erent viceroys who had titular charge of the colony before theCompany of One Hundred Associates took charge in 1627 had similarpowers. Several seigneurial grants in the region of Quebec had, infact, been made before Richelieu first turned his attention to thecolony.
Nor was the adoption of this policy at all unnatural. Despite itsincreasing obsolescence, the seigneurial system was still strong inFrance and dominated the greater part of the kingdom. The nobility andeven the throne rested upon it.
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