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Seigneur or lord is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. The owned a,, or lordship—a form of title or land tenure—as a fief, with its associated obligations and rights over person and property. In this sense, a could be an individual—male or female, high or low-born—or a collective en... Wikipedia