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  1. 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]

  2. 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. He remained there until the summer of 1607, when the colony was abandoned after the revocation of its trading monopoly.

  3. 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.

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  5. Marc Lescarbot was a lawyer, traveller, and writer who visited Acadia in 1606 and published Histoire de la Nouvelle-France in 1609. He also wrote poetry and a play, Le théâtre de neptune en la Nouvelle-France, and is considered one of the first historians of New France.

  6. Contents. 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.

  7. 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,

  8. Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement, and Metamorphosis in Les Muses de la Nouvelle France. VK Preston. D. Dean et al. (eds.), History, Memory, Performance. © Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015. Un/becoming Nomad 69.

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