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AbstractRecent years have seen increased interest in the Canadian nobility in New France. The attributes and demographic habits of this social group are now familiar to us while their cultural practices are still little known. In order to better understand some of these elements, this article deals with book ownership among the Canadian nobility between 1670 and 1764. Using a documentary corpus of 276 notarized acts, principally post-mortem inventories, and following the quantitative methods developed by French scholars specializing in the history of reading, this article identifies the number and size of collections of printed materials, the places in which they were kept and the nature of these collections. It briefly considers how Canadian noblemen use their books and shows that they differ from the general population of New France as far as books are concerned.
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A paleoecological study of the fossil fauna of the postglacial seas of Québec, with special attention on mollusks, permit the delineation of type-communities. These benthonic communities are distributed according to the depth, with small variations from the northern basins to the generally more brackish southern seas. Thus, epibiontic (epifaunal) communities living on coarse sediments are the intertidal Mytilus edulis community, and the deeper water Hiatella arctica community which may be subdivided in two sub-communities. The endobiontic (in-faunal) communities living in sandy, silty or clayey shallow water sediments, include the Mya arenaria and Macoma balthica communities and the deeper water Macoma calcarea community which may be subdivided in three sub-communities. The Portlandia arctica community deserves a special status because it is mainly associated with glacio-marine muddy environments. These communities, which correspond to well-defined litho facies, vary often succeeded each other in relation to the decreasing depth of the basins due to post-glacial rebound. Thus, they do not reflect climatic trends, but simply hydrological changes caused by shoaling of each basin. Occasionally, some «warm» water species migrated northward for a short period of time during middle or late Holocene. The reflect a slightly delayed climatic optimum in the Artic.
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