THE OLD RÉGIME 1608-1698 BY CHARLES W. COLBY NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1910 F103C .ст PREFACE THE chapters of this book represent lectures which were delivered recently in Ottawa before the May Court Club. They contain no new material, and use with freedom the works of others, At the same time historical facts can be employed in a large number of different combinations, and here the life of Canada during the Old Régime is approached by a route which as yet seems not to have been followed. The author's aim is to discuss various aspects of French colonisation, without at any point straying far from the concrete. To secure distinctness the examples have been drawn, chapter by chapter, from some one career. Or rather, a single personage has been made the representative of a class, and in considering the large subject with which he is connected, certain features of his experience are rendered prominent. But this method does not involve the exact portraiture of individuals, nor does it exclude minor figures from the field of the discussion. iii 242317 |