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This article proposes to revisit the genesis of Bacqueville de La Potherie's Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale (1722) in the light of four texts published in the Mercure galant between 1691 and 1702, which partially overlap texts found in the historical monograph. By placing these excerpts in their original context of production and relying on various archival documents, the comparative analysis offers new avenues of interpretation of the work. It invites the researcher to reposition these historical narratives in a current discourse that participates, at the time of New France, in the constitution of a colonial imaginary.
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This investigation shows how the representation in the Mercure galant of the diplomatic ballet between the French, the British and the Natives in North America suffers from an unequal treatment of the actors involved. In the context of the imperial rivalry exacerbated by the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713), British ambassadors were systematically denigrated, both by the comments of the periodical's correspondents and by the reported remarks of the Indigenous representatives. Unsurprisingly, the French emissaries and their allies were the big winners in this biased staging. In contrast, the accounts of these negotiations recorded by the British administrators, which are the subject of the last part of the study, give a completely different picture of these tripartite exchanges in which the subjects of the “Roi-Soleil” were far from playing the most important role.
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Ce mémoire de recherche porte sur les relations entre les Jésuites et le gouvernement colonial en Nouvelle-France dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Il analyse plus précisément l'évolution des pratiques communicationnelles et des stratégies discursives de ces deux acteurs entre l'établissement du gouvernement royal en 1663 et la conclusion de la Grande Paix de Montréal en 1701. La forte centralisation du pouvoir temporel avec le passage à la colonie royale et l'introduction d'autres ordres catholiques dans la colonie entraînent alors pour les Jésuites la diminution de leur indépendance et de leur influence dans les prises de décisions concernant l'ensemble de la vie politico-économique. Les Jésuites sont notamment l'objet de critiques plus ou moins sévères de la part des autorités royales et coloniales. En réaction, …