Samuel de Champlain before 1604 : Des Sauvages and other documents related to the period / / edited by Conrad E. Heidenreich and K. Janet Ritch.

• Superior document: The publications of the Champlain Society ; 71
• Author: Champlain Society.
• TeilnehmendeR: Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635.; Heidenreich, Conrad E., 1936-; Ritch, K. Janet 1955-; Champlain Society.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English; French; Middle French
• Series: Publications of the Champlain Society ; 71.
• Physical Description: xxii, 490 p. :; ill., maps.
• Notes: "Seven hundred copies ... printed and reserved for members of the Society and subscribing libraries."

Table of Contents

Introductory essays. Champlain and his times to 1604 : an interpretive essay ; Textual introduction to Des sauvages -- Documents. Early biographies of Champlain : extracts = Anciennes biographies de Champlain : extraits ; Personnel and pay records from the garrisons in Brittany, 1595-1597 = Paiement dans l'arm{acute}ee royale de Bretagne, 1595-1597 ; Gift from Guillermo Elena to Samuel de Champlain = Donaci{acute}on de Guillermo Elena a Samuel de Champlain ; Factum of the merchants of Saint-Malo against Champlain, [January 1613] = Factum des marchands de Saint-Malo contre Champlain, [1613] ; Decrees and commissions preparatory to the Voyage of 1603 = Arr{circ}ets et commissions pour le traffique du Canada, le 13 mars 1603 ; Excerpts from Champlain's works related to events before 1604 = Extraits des uvres de Champlain avant 1604 ; Des sauvages, or, Voyage of Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 = Des sauvages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain, [1603], 1604 -- Of the French who have become accustomed to being in Canada : summary of Des sauvages by Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 = Des Fran{cedil}cois qui sont habituez en Canada : sommaire de Des sauvages par Pierre-Victor Cayet, 1605 ; The voyage of Samvel Champlaine of Brouage, made unto Canada in the yeere 1603 -- Appendices. Champlain's birthdate and appearance ; Champlain's signature and titles ; Chronology to 1604 ; French measures of distance, weight, and coinage ; Champlain's Des sauvages and Edward Hayes's Treatise.