The Chevalier De Montmagny 1601-1657

by Dube, Jean-Claude; Rapley, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780776630281
• ISBN10: 0776630288
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

InThe Chevalier de Montmagny, Jean-Claude Dube documents the extraordinary career of Charles Huault de Montmagny, first governor of the colony of New France. Born in Paris in 1601, and educated by the Jesuits, Montmagny studied law at the Universite d'Orleans, joined the Order of Malta, and enjoyed a colourful career as a Hospitalier privateer in the Mediterranean, before arriving in New France in the spring of 1636.While Montmagny wasted little time in applying the experience he gained fighting the Ottoman Turks to New France's disputes with the Iroquois, he has also been credited with playing a key role in both ensuring the survival of the colony and the entrenchment of a religious elite. His exploits caught the imagination of Cyrano de Bergerac, who later cast Montmagny as a character in his novelL'autre monde.This well-documented study - which in its original French edition was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award in 1999 - adds an important dimension to our understanding of the social, religious, and political history of New France.

Author Biography

Jean-Claude DubT is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. Elizabeth Rapley is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix
List of maps	xi
List of illustrations	viii
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	xvii
List of abbreviations used in the tables	xxiii
List of abbreviations used for the notes	xxv
Chapter 1. The Ancestry of the Chevalier de Montmagny	3	(34)
1. An invented origin	5	(3)
2. Pierre Huault de Montmagny (d. 1534)	8	(5)
3. The three sons of Pierre Huault	13	(4)
4. Charles Huault, father of the chevalier de Montmagny (1553-1610)	17	(5)
5. The Du Drac family	22	(15)
Chapter 2. The Huault de Montmagny Family in the Seventeenth Century	37	(26)
1. The chevalier's mother, Antoinette Du Drac (1558-1618)	38	(3)
2. Adrien Huault (1598-1667)	41	(3)
3. Charlotte Huault (1583-ca. 1650)	44	(4)
4. Louis Huault (1585-1646) and his wife, Catherine Loftin	48	(7)
5. The end of the Huault de Montmagny family	55	(8)
Chapter 3. A First Direction: The Robe	63	(22)
1. The earliest years (1601-1610)	64	(3)
2. With the Jesuits of La Fleche (1610-1618)	67	(8)
3. The interlude at Orleans (1619-1620)	75	(2)
4. The journey to Italy (1620-1621)	77	(8)
Chapter 4. Corsair for Christ	85	(32)
1. The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, also known, since 1530, as the Order of Malta	86	(4)
2. Montmagny enters the Order of Malta	90	(7)
3. Privateering activities in the Mediterranean	97	(13)
4. The Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France	110	(7)
Chapter 5. From the Mediterranean to the Saint Lawrence	117	(26)
1. The Knights of Malta in the Saint Lawrence valley	121	(6)
2. Where was New France at the start of 1636?	127	(4)
3. Reasons for hope, according to Le Jeune	131	(12)
Chapter 6. Onontio	143	(52)
1. A highly relative peace (1636-1640)	145	(19)
2. Open but sporadic hostilities (1641-1645)	164	(17)
3. From fragile peace to permanent guerilla warfare (1646-1648)	181	(14)
Chapter 7. "Wise and Prudent Conduct" in the Internal Management of the Colony	195	(38)
1. Managing a colony: some points of reference	196	(20)
2. Concerning some outstanding events	216	(17)
Chapter 8. Reality and Fiction	233	(24)
1. New France in 1648	235	(14)
2. Between the chevalier de Montmagny and the prophet Elijah: Cyrano	249	(8)
Chapter 9. On the Service of the Order of Malta in the Antilles	257	(32)
1. France in Saint-Christophe	259	(4)
2. The Poincy phenomenon	263	(7)
3. Montmagny on the service of the Order of Malta in the Antilles	270	(13)
4. Epilogue to Montmagny's death: The end of the adventure of the Order of Malta in the Antilles	283	(6)
By way of a conclusion: "Faitz Bien et laisse dire"	289	(6)
Notes	295	(64)
Glossary	359	(4)
Bibliography	363	(14)
Index	377