Cultural Readings - Lescarbot

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Lescarbot
Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library Marc Lescarbot,
Histoire de la Nouvelle France...
Paris: Jean Milot, 1609.

Marc Lescarbot was a French lawyer who accompanied his client, Jean de Biencourt, Seigneur de Poutrincourt, to what is now Nova Scotia. He returned a year later and published several accounts of "New France." Lescarbot espoused a positive view of native life, using the natives as foils for a critique of French society.

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Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library	Marc Lescarbot, Histoire de la Nouvelle France... Paris: Jean Milot, 1609.
Marc Lescarbot was a French lawyer who accompanied his client, Jean de Biencourt, Seigneur de Poutrincourt, to what is now Nova Scotia. He returned a year later and published several accounts of "New France." Lescarbot espoused a positive view of native life, using the natives as foils for a critique of French society.