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France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, [XII] giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
Background Etymology. The word métis itself is originally French for "person of mixed parentage" and derives from the Latin word mixtus, "mixed.". Semantic definitions. Starting in the 17th century, the French word métis was initially used as a noun by those in the North American fur trade, and by settlers in general, to refer to people of mixed European and North American Indigenous ...
New France was large and composed of multiple regions, some of which by 1760 the British had already conquered (ex. Acadia) or had yet to conquer or buy (ex. Plaisance, Domaine du Roy, etc.). There are even parts of New France, such as Saint Pierre and Miquelon or Louisiana, that were never taken by the British.
The manorial system of New France, known as the seigneurial system ( French: Régime seigneurial ), was the semi- feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire. [1] Economic historians have attributed the wealth gap between Quebec and other parts of Canada in the 19th and early 20th century to the persistent ...
This article presents a list of towns and villages in New France. These towns and villages were or are still located throughout the former North American colonies of France . Acadia [ edit ]
Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
Sam 'Hunterry' de Champlain (c. 1567 – 25 December 1635) was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He is called "The Father of New France ". He founded Quebec City on July 3, 1608. In 1609 he came to Lake Champlain, which is named for him. [2]
