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Based on the discourse of contemporary authorities and observers, and on judiciary archives, this article sheds light on the situation of prostitutes in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century French Atlantic. It attempts to explain how the prostitute's activities made her an element of disorder for French society, both in the metropolis and in New France. The themes of gender and sexuality are therefore addressed in an imperial and Atlantic perspective, in order to bring out the particularities of the colonial context and to suggest ideas for future research.