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Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570–1641) was a French author, poet and lawyer. He is best known for his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (1609), based on his expedition to Acadia (1606–1607) and research into French exploration in North America. [1]
Marc Lescarbot, lawyer, author (b at Vervins, France c 1570; d in France 1642). A Paris lawyer, Lescarbot sailed for Acadia in May 1606 at the invitation of one of his clients, colonizer Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt.
Lescarbot, a very picturesque figure, has a special place among the chroniclers of New France. Between Champlain, the somewhat unpolished man of action, and the missionaries concerned with evangelization, this lawyer-poet appears as a scholar and a humanist, a disciple of Ronsard and Montaigne.
Marc Lescarbot (lawyer, traveller, and writer) was born circa 1570 at Vervius in Thiérache, a frontier region between France and the Spanish Netherlands, and died in Prestes, France in 1642 (Baudry). He studied law in France, translated many works from Latin to French, and published poetry, such as Poèmes de la paix, Adieu à la France, and ...
Marc Lescarbot. French author. Learn about this topic in these articles: Canadian literature in French. In Canadian literature: The French regime, 1535–1763. …in New France belongs to Marc Lescarbot, whose pageant Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France ( The Theatre of Neptune in New France) was presented at Port-Royal in 1606.
Théâtre de Neptune was performed at Port Royal as the first theatrical production in North America. Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570–1641) wrote the play and is best known for his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (1609), based on his expedition to Acadia (1606–1607) and research into French exploration.
Jul 27, 2016 · "Appendix I: List of Lescarbot's works": Volume 3, pages 515-521 commitment to retain Vols. 2-3 numbered L19 RBSC volumes 7,11: No. 27 of limited ed TRIR copy 1 of v. 1 has no. L110, c. 2 unnumbered; c. 1 of vol. 2 has no. L110, c. 2 has no. 156; c. 1 of vol. 3 has no. L110, c. 2 has no. 156 Victoria University Library volumes are No. L.36 of ...
Dec 11, 2015 · Farewell to Canada: Marc Lescarbot’s A-Dieu à la Nouvelle-France (1607) | Essay & Translation — Haijo Westra. T his poem in Alexandrine verses was written by a Parisian lawyer, Marc Lescarbot, who had joined the early French settlement at Port-Royal, near present-day Annapolis Royal on the Annapolis Basin of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia ...
THE PARLIAMENTARY LAWYER Marc Lescarbot (ca. 1570-1641) lived at the tiny French settlement of Port-Royal in Acadia (present day Annapolis, Nova Scotia) for 13 months, beginning in July 1606.' The colony's commander, Jean de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt, had invited Lescarbot to join the 1606 expedition as its chronicler. Poutrincourt,
Feb 21, 2007 · Lescarbot (lawyer, traveller, writer, b Vervius, France, ca 1570, d Presles, France, 1642) visited Port Royal during the winter of 1606-7. The Theatre of Neptune is the earliest known entertainment conceived and performed in New France by Europeans, and is thought to be the first in North America.
