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AbstractIn a way, the restrospective narrative of Dassoucy in his Adventures (1677) is the narration of a survivor. The author, who was in jail several times and was said to be dead, tells adventures that were prejudicial to his person, his fortune and his honor. Reorganizing the past as a succession of misfortunes and triumphs, the narrative helps the narrator to restore his self-esteem, and we can see how the author is very conscious of his mechanisms of defense. It is, however, difficult to consider this narrative as a text of resiliency ; self adaptation is incomplete and ambiguous : libertine irony compromises the story of survival and the traumatic experiences of prison and symbolic death are present in only a metaphorical way. Dassoucy enjoys his status of victim to some degree and the main goals of his text are polemic and promoting himself.
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With the exception of Blanchard, Deffontaines, Derruau and Hamelin, few geographers have studied the rang, in particular its origin. Among the more recent studies are those of Harris and Belanger. The former suggests that the rang could have developed independent of the land holding System, while the latter believes that it grew out of natural and social factors of regional organization. The aim of this article is to shed light upon the context into which the rang appeared in the Saint Lawrence Valley. The hypothesis is that the seigneuries and the rotures defined an original System of land parcelling in order to advance a rapid and total occupation of the laurentian corridor, the major route towards the interior. Begun during the first half of the XVIIth century, the implantation of the rang was sufficiently established by 1663 to resist any future political changes.
Keywords: Géographie historique, rang, seigneurie, censive, village, vallée du Saint-Laurent, province de Québec, Historical geography, rang, seigneurie, roture, village, Saint Lawrence Valley, province of Québec
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Because of its strategic location and symbolical importance (Quebec City as an emblem of the whole province of Quebec), the Old Capital is, since the times of Champlain until today, THE figure of the city under siege. Its portrayals as a target and a victim, but also as impregnable fortress or as a national female hero, are the main topics of these pages. The analysis is based on various chronicles and poems narrating the three blockades of the city of Quebec that were attempted during the 16th and 17th centuries : the 1628-1629, 1690 and 1711 campaigns under the consecutive commands of the Kirke brothers, William Phips and Honvenden Walker.