2007
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Tangence : ; no. 85 (2007)
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Réal Ouellet, « Canadois et Caraïbes sous le regard des chroniqueurs du xviie siècle », Tangence, ID : 10.7202/018606ar
French colonization of the Antilles and Canada began at exactly the same period, and often the same figures, possessing a number of traits in common, are found on both territories inhabited by the Amerindians. Chroniclers’ representations of them, however, are very different. This is explained less by ethnic or geographic discrepancies than by the type of relationship formed with the Native populations. Because the chroniclers of the Antilles, with a few exceptions (Breton for the most part) did not share the life of the Natives, as did the missionary Lejeune or the soldier Lahontan, it was easier for them to fall back on myths of a Golden Age or an earthly Paradise.