S'il est un personnage controversé dans l'histoire de la Nouvelle-France, c'est bien Pierre-Esprit Radisson. Né en France, puis traversé en Nouvelle-France, il a tour à tour été capturé et adopté par les Iroquois, coureur des bois et explorateur, pour éve

Pierre-Esprit Radisson | 1636-1710 (French Edition)

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Fournier, Martin

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Éditions du Septentrion

<p>Historians have been critical of Radisson and Des Groseilliers' changes of allegiance but Martin Fournier shows that they loyally served their English business partners until the political turmoil of the Exclusion Crisis against the succession of the Catholic Duke of York, Radisson's patron, forced the two Frenchmen to leave England. Radisson then worked briefly for French interests before permanently establishing the Nelson River trading post for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1684. From 1687 until his death in 1710 he lived as a gentleman in London.</p>

Pierre-Esprit Radisson: Merchant Adventurer, 1636-1701

Biographies & Memoirs

McGill-Queen's University Press

Les Aventures de Radisson, t.1 (French Edition)

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Genre Fiction

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