France in North America: The net burden of empire during the first half of the eighteenth century

French History

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-28

  Desbarats, Catherine M ^a  

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EID: 60949323461     PISSN: 02691191     EISSN: 14774542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fh/11.1.1     Document Type: Article

References (21)

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2. J. Meyer, J. Tarrade et al. (eds.), Histoire de la France coloniale: des origines à 1914 (1991) p. 100, describes Canada as 'très déficitaire', without citing any precise sources
3. and L. Campeau, Les finances publiques de la Nouvelle-France sous les Cent-Associés (Montreal, 1975)
4. C. Moore, 'The other Louisbourg: trade and merchant enterprise in Île Royale 1713-58', Social Hist, 12 (1979), 79, argues against this view, and portrays the thriving merchant community concentrated at the fortified town of Louisbourg, by far the colony's largest settlement, which served also as a major naval base
5. J. C. Riley, 'French finances, 1717-1769', J Mod Hist, 59 (1987), 209-10
6. The Trésoriers généraux de la Marine had been sending clerks to Canada since 1685 or 1686. P-G. Roy, 'Les trésoriers de la marine à Québec', B Recherches H, 35 (1929), 635-6
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10. Riley, 'French finances', 215-22
11. T. Crowley, 'Le Normant de Mézy, Jacques-Ange', Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, iii (Quebec, 1974), 417-20
12. C. Moore, 'The other Louisbourg', pp. 80-6
13. and Bosher, French finances, pp. 14-15
14. C. M. Desbarats, 'Colonial government finances in New France, 1700-1750', unpub. Ph.D. thesis (McGill University, 1994), table 4.7
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16. and Steele, Warpaths: invasions of North America (New York, 1994)
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18. Pritchard, Louis XV's navy, pp. 215-22
19. P. Villiers, Marine royale, corsaires et trafic dans l'Atlantique de Louis XIV à Louis XVI, (Lille, 1991), i. 204-9
20. Ephémérides du citoyen, III, no. 4 (14 Mar. 1766), p. 49/64
21. C. M. Desbarats, 'The cost of early Canada's native alliances: reality and scarcity's rhetoric', William M Q, ser. 3, 52 (1995), 609-30