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Taking inspiration from Robert Melançon's work on the dysphoria, euphoria and mythification structuring the representation of the New World in the account of Jacques Cartier's travels, the author of this text analyzes La grande épopée de Jacques Cartier, a series of novels for young people written by Eugène Achard between 1935 and 1942, in which the landscape is invested with a French Canadian identity that it lacked at the time of the discovery.
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To understand why and how insurance contracts evolved in Western civilisation,one needs to analyse and study the tools used by merchants and ship owners tolimit their financial risk of doing business. It is important to recall that the insurancecontract as we know it in the 21st century was born in the middle ages whenthe Catholic Church was enthralled in fighting commercial practices it consideredunacceptable, such as usury loans. In this paper, I provide three explanations asto why ocean marine insurance evolved much faster than land marine insurance.First, ocean faring vessels were more at risk of piracy than were land caravans.Second, natural catastrophes are more common in the ocean than on land. Finally,ocean vessels carried more much valuable cargo than land caravans.
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