{"title":"Les défis procéduriers d'un commerçant de La Rochelle en Acadie: Nicolas Denys, 1636–1684","authors":"Nicolas Landry","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0032","url":null,"abstract":"This article is in no way an attempt to present a biographical sketch of French entrepreneur Nicolas Denys in Acadia during the seventeenth century. Instead, it seeks to give him a more appropriate place within the business historiography of colonial Acadia and New France. The objective was to approach the topic by examining three aspects of Denys's career: the attacks from his opponents, the consequences of the numerous trials he was involved in, and finally, the administrative inconsistencies of the French authorities that also contributed to his bankruptcy.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"53 1","pages":"30 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les pouvoirs publics métropolitains face à la Dépression: La Conférence économique de la France métropolitaine et d'Outre-Mer (1934–1935)","authors":"S. Saul","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0035","url":null,"abstract":"With the Depression eroding France's foreign trade, government authorities felt compelled to convene an imperial conference in order to seek solutions based on the consolidation of economic ties with the Empire. Inspiration came partly from the conference held in Ottawa in 1932 by Great Britain and its Dominions. The aim of the Paris gathering was to promote increased exports to the colonies as a substitute to foreign markets lost during the downswing. Likewise, importers were encouraged to buy from the colonies, rather than from foreign countries, thereby raising the purchasing power of the colonial population and its ability to import French goods. Although the program to institute a coordinated imperial economy appeared logical in principle, its implementation was complicated by economic realities and the non-complementary character of the metropolitan and the colonial economies.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"167 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"French Bankers in Revolutionary Mexico: Exploring the Limits of Informal Empire, 1917–1928","authors":"Abdiel Oñate","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Les banques modernes émergèrent au Mexique dans les années 1860, pendant l'empire français de Maximilien de Habsbourg (1862 -1867), une des conquêtes impériales commanditées par Napoléon III, et à partir de ce moment-là, les banquiers français jouèrent un rôle dominant dans le développement du Mexique. Pendant les décennies précédant la Révolution mexicaine, les banques françaises financèrent la modernisation du pays, et une d'entre elles, la Banco Nacional de México, fonctionna comme banque centrale du Mexique. La Révolution mexicaine détruisit l'ancien régime et mit fin à la domination française des marchés du crédit mexicain. En 1920, le Président Alvaro Obregón, dans le but d'initier la reconstruction économique du pays, réorganisa tout le système monétaire et bancaire du Mexique; le Crédit Foncier se retrouva non conforme à la nouvelle législature et fut donc liquidé, causant une grande perte financière aux investisseurs français. Les puissants banquiers parisiens ou le gouvernement français ne purent rien faire. Après 1920, la France cessa de jouer le rôle principal dans le secteur financier du Mexique.A partir d'archives mexicaines et françaises, cet article raconte l'histoire du Crédit Foncier Mexicain, une banque française qui opéra au Mexique pendant et après la Révolution mexicaine de 1910, et montre comment sa liquidation, en 1928, illustre la fin de l'hégémonie française en Amérique latine, notamment au Mexique, un pays où les banques françaises avaient dominé les marchés du crédit et des finances pendant un demi-siècle. Cette étude nous permet d'explorer les limites de l'impérialisme informel dans le contexte d'un pays non-colonial tel que le Mexique.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"143 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Il sera important de me mander le détail de toutes choses\": Knowledge and Transatlantic Communication from the Sulpician Mission in Canada, 1668–1680","authors":"Timothy G. Pearson","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Missionnaires en Nouvelle-France, les prêtres de la Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice ont produit énormément d'informations et une importante correspondance, échangée entre le Canada et la France sous le régime français. Cet article poursuit un double but: il s'agit de montrer, d'une part, comment cette institution religieuse a collecté et disséminé des connaissances sur la colonie et, d'autre part, de démontrer comment le supérieur général, Louis Tronson (1676–1699), a utilisé son réseau en Nouvelle-France afin de gagner en faveur et en influence à la cour de France. Ainsi à travers le cas de la mission sulpicienne de Kenté, située sur la côte nord du Lac Ontario, se révèle sous un jour nouveau le rôle joué par les institutions religieuses comme celle de Saint-Sulpice dans la formation et l'administration d'un Atlantique français au dix-septième siècle.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"60 1","pages":"45 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solidarité nationale et captivité coloniale","authors":"Armelle Mabon","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0037","url":null,"abstract":"After the debacle of June 1940, many French soldiers were imprisoned. While the combatants from metropolitan France left for Germany, those from the colonies were sent to frontstalags throughout occupied France. Welfare services and support organizations were solicited to assist this group materially and to give them moral support. This captivity in metropolitan regions led to an unexpected rapprochement with the French population, especially since the actions of the Resistance managed to intensify under the cover of these organizations, facilitating the escape and transfer to the Maquis of these prisoners from the colonies. This is perfectly illustrated by the commitment of the great ethnologist Germaine Tillion. Even the Vichy government recognized all the benefits they could derive from these privileged contacts and sought to use this collective solidarity to spread a colonialist propaganda about the \"subjects\" of the empire fallen into the hands of enemies whose nationalistic positions they especially feared.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"193 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anatomy of a Slave Insurrection: The Shipwreck of the Vautour on the West Coast of Madagascar in 1725","authors":"Arne Bialuschewski","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Basé sur les manuscrits des Archives départementales de La Réunion et de la Hispanic Society of America, cet article analyse une insurrection d'esclaves sur le navire le Vautour sur la côte ouest de Madagascar en 1725. Il identifie un certain nombre de facteurs qui ont contribué à la perte du vaisseau, démontrant en quoi le succès de l'insurrection sur le Vautour a inspiré d'innombrables révoltes d'esclaves, ce qui a conduit à un changement dans la traite des esclaves pratiquée par les Français entre l'ouest et l'est de Madagascar.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"101 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"A sign that we are related to you\": The Transatlantic Gifts of the Hurons of the Jesuit Mission of Lorette, 1650–1750","authors":"Karin Vélez","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0034","url":null,"abstract":"En 1674, un missionnaire jésuite de Nouvelle France, Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, a reconstruit la célèbre relique Catholique italienne, la Sainte Maison de Lorette, pour ses Hurons convertis. Cela lui a gagné une place dans les livres d'histoire et a fait de lui un personnage exceptionnel. Cet article défend la thèse que le Jésuite ne fut pas seul dans l'accomplissement de cette mission mais que les Hurons eux-mêmes contribuèrent largement à la dévotion à Lorette en Nouvelle France. Entre 1670 et 1720, les Hurons de la mission jésuite de Lorette envoyèrent au moins cinq colliers de wampum à des communautés Catholiques de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique. Le présent article examine les conditions de réception de ces cadeaux, en particulier par l'église de Notre Dame de Foye à Dinant, en Belgique, par la cathédrale de Chartres, en France, et par la mission de Sault-St.-Louis, ou Kahnawake, au Canada. Déjà au dix-huitième siècle, dans l'empire français, l'expression \"Lorette\" en était venue à désigner ces Hurons exotiques plutôt que la Sainte Maison apportée d'Italie par les Jésuites. Le partage de la religion Catholique avait transformé des étrangers en membres d'une même famille.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"31 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L'observatoire d'Ambohidempona à Madagascar (1888–1923): Pouvoir jésuite et science coloniale","authors":"Évelyne Combeau-Mari","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0029","url":null,"abstract":"The Astronomic Observatory of Ambohidempona embodies both in architectural and in functional terms the very expression of Jesuit power in the Malagasy capital. This study examines the degree to which a scientific institute focusing on research in meteorology and astronomy became a power locus in the colonial context. The key interest lies in the period chosen for study, 1889–1923. Jesuit work in Madagascar considerably predates that of the colonizers (1896), because it was motivated by the struggle against Protestants, who were already well implanted. The study shows that the Observatory, by means of its double identity—Jesuit and scientific—was placed at the heart of a network of knowledge production and collaborative projects, which had local, national, and international ramifications.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"103 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friend and Foe Revisited","authors":"C. Jaenen","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0030","url":null,"abstract":"L'ouvrage pionnier Friend and Foe, publié en 1976, est le résultat de plusieurs années de recherches originales, révolutionnaires pour l'époque. Dans le présent article, l'auteur réexamine ses principales conclusions à la lumière des travaux ultérieurs, conduits dans ce domaine par lui et par d'autres historiens. L'argument principal mis en avant dans l'ouvrage semble être demeuré défendable, y compris la thèse selon laquelle l'expérience de contact était, en grande partie, une expérience de dépendance mutuelle, plutôt qu'une situation de ce que l'on a ensuite appelé \"middle ground.\" Cet article conclut sur une brève évaluation des thèses de l'ouvrage dans le cadre de l'analyse du paratexte fournie par Genette.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le nerf de la guerre. Finances et métissage des expéditions françaises de la première guerre des Renards (1715–1716)","authors":"S. Mourin","doi":"10.1353/FCH.2011.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/FCH.2011.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Financing is one of the three main problems encountered by armies, together with supply and recruitment. When funds are insufficient, as they often are, it may be necessary to find alternative financial, tactical, and technical expedients in order to continue waging war. Such was the case in New France, where financial constraints were particularly acute during the campaigns against Amerindians. Indeed, during the Fox Wars of the early eighteenth century, the shortage of funds was so severe as to impact directly the nature of military operations. This article examines the expeditions launched from Montréal toward the Fox territories in present-day Wisconsin in 1715 and 1716. It shows how lack of funds elicited a creative response from colonial authorities, resulting in a culturally syncretistic method of warfare, adapted both to the physical environment of North America and to the Native art of waging war.","PeriodicalId":29880,"journal":{"name":"French Colonial History","volume":"12 1","pages":"67 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/FCH.2011.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}