Infobox Person name Jean Guyon, du Buisson image image size caption birth date September 18, 1592 birth place Tourouvre , France death date May 30, 1663 death place Beauport, Quebec Beauport , Nouvelle France education occupation masonry mason , colonist spouse Mathurine Robin parents children Jean Guyon du Buisson junior and 9 others Jean Guyon du Buisson September 18, 1592 May 30, 1663 was born at the Saint Aubin parish in Tourouvre , Orne , France on September 18, 1592. ref http www.fichierorigine.com detail.php?numero 241993 According to a research carried out in France and documented in the Fichier origine . ref Guyon was patriarch of one of the earliest French families to settle in Nouvelle France , one of the most numerous in the beginning, one of the most respected and best known. Guyon made his living as a masonry mason and was regarded as a master mason of excellent reputation . In 1615, he finished the interior stone staircase of the church Saint Aubin. Arrival in Nouvelle France Guyon and family emigrated to North America as part of the http www.apointinhistory.net percheron immigration.php Percheron Immigration , a small group of families and some single men from the region of Perche A Source of Emigrants Perche , in the province of Normandy, brought over to Nouvelle France in 1634 to colonize new areas. Jean de Lauzon , the Governor of New France , awarded a concession of land to Robert Giffard de Moncel , physician to the colony. Giffard, now Seigneurie of Beauport, recruited Guyon and other tradesmen to the new colony with the offer of convert 1,000 arpent 1 of land with hunting and fishing rights in exchange for three years of service. Guyon traveled aboard a convoy of four ships under the command of Charles Duplessis Bochart and arrived in Nouvelle France in 1634. Guyon was awarded land in newly established Beauport, Quebec Beauport , one of the oldest European founded communities in Canada and now a borough of Quebec City . Under the Seigneurial s ... more details
The D sert de Retz is an Chinoiserie Anglo Chinois or French landscape garden created on the edge of the for t de Marly in the commune of Chambourcy , in north central France. It was built at the end of the 18th century by the aristocrat Fran ois Racine de Monville on his convert 40 ha acre adj on estate. It is notable for the construction of 17 or 20 buildings, of which only 10 still survive, referring to classical antiquity or in an exotic style. Those buildings include a summer house the colonne bris e , or ruined column , in the form of the base of a shattered column from an imaginary gigantic temple, an Ice house building ice house in the form of an Egyptian pyramid, an obelisk, a temple dedicated to Pan mythology Pan , and a now lost Chinese pavilion. Image F Deserts de Retz Chambourcy.jpg thumb La colonne bris e History In 1774, Monville bought the house, its service quarters and an estate of about convert 13 ha from Antoine Joseph Basire, and then extended the estate to convert 90 arpent 0 1 by 1785. In July 1792, Monville sold the D sert and his two h tel particulier h tels in Paris to the Englishman Lewis Disney Ffytche and as the property of an English subject these were seized and sold in 1793 on the outbreak of the War of the First Coalition . In 1811, Lebigre Beaurepaire bought the D sert, but he did not honour his debts, and the estate was again seized and in 1816 sold back to Disney Ffytche after the Bourbon Restoration . Ffytche s grandson Auguste Guilaume Hilary took possession in 1824 and sold it in 1827 to a notary of Saint Germain en Laye , Ma tre Alexandre Marie Denis. Denis sold it in 1839 to Jean Fran ois Bayard , a nephew of Eug ne Scribe , and fellow slave owner. In 1856, Jean Fran ois Bayard s widow ceded it to Fr d ric Passy 1822 1912 and his son Pierre born on the estate added a chicken coop hen farm but in 1936 was forced to sell the estate due to financial difficulties, with the buyer being Georges Courtois. Courtois bought into via pa ... more details
operated a sharecropping farm m tairie on the land. From an area of about 30 arpent s about 10 hectares , the farm reached an area of 200 arpent s about 68 hectares by the mid 18th century ... more details
Image Voltaire Baquoy.gif 280px thumb right Voltaire at the residence of Frederick II of Prussia Frederick II in Potsdam , Prussia. Partial view of an engraving by Pierre Charles Baquoy , after N. A. Monsiau. A few acres of snow in the original French language French , quelques arpent s ref Although generally translated as acres , the arpent is actually an old French unit of land measurement , approximately 85 of an acre. ref de neige References sup p sup with vers le Canada is one of several quotations from Voltaire , the 18th century writer, which are representative of his sneering evaluation of Canada, New France Canada , and by extension New France , as lacking economic value and strategic importance to 18th century France . The exact phrase first appears in 1758 in chapter 23 of Voltaire s book Candide , although the phrase a few acres of ice appeared in a letter he wrote in 1757. Voltaire wrote similar sarcasm sarcastic remarks in other works. Historical context of the quotations In Voltaire s day, New France included Canada, Acadia , Louisiana New France , and other territories. All parts of the colonies were the object of Voltaire s sarcastic comments at one point or another. Through all his writings on the subject, Voltaire s basic idea about France s Canadian colony always remained the same. It can be summarized as comprising an economic premise and a strategic premise, both of which concur to a practical conclusion, as follows Almost the entirety of Canada s territory is, and will remain, an almost unproductive and useless frozen wasteland. Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain , having colonized the more productive territories to the south and having already provided them with a much larger population, will not tolerate the presence of another Europe an power in that area and will relentlessly attack Canada until such presence is ousted. Given the enormous disproportion in population and material resources between the French and British colonies in Nort ... more details
French Note abatis achigan black bass perche noire acre acre arpent In Louisiana, an arpent is still a legal unit of measurement, and is not the same as an acre. Here, arpent is used both as a measure ... more details
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