The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
Now as to the Colonies, and their proper establishment, of which
we were speaking; we have stepped down from them to the subject of
the Catechism [117] and to the defense of the Jesuits, not without
necessity in my opinion, nor without great profit. For since we
have mentioned the _Factum_ written against the said Jesuits,
and as we must from now on expose, one by one, the lies therein
contained, it is for us here to explain what that _Factum_ is, who
was its Author, and what are said to have been the causes for its
being issued to the world.
CHAPITRE XII. [i.e., xi.]
A QUELLE OCCASION LES IESUITES ALLERENT EN LA NOUUELLE FRANCE, L'AN
1611. & CE QUE LES FRANÇOIS Y FIRENT DÉS L'AN 1608. IUSQUES À LEUR
VENUË.
NOVS auons cy-deuant discouru des terres, & peuples de la Nouuelle
France, & parlãts [118] du moyen de pouuoir ayder ces Nations: à
ceste occasion nous sommes tombez sur le _Factum_ escrit, & publié
contre les Iesuites. Or d'autant, que ce difamateur, & factieux
(ainsi le nommeray-ie d'ores-en-auant,) commençant dés l'embarquement
des Iesuites, les poursuit, comme à la trace en Canada par boys, &
riuieres, mer, & terres, de iour & de nuict, en tous leurs voyages &
demeures, espiant par tout de tirer sur eux à couuert & proditoirement
quelques impostures, & calomnies. A ceste cause il nous faut de
necessité reprendre mesmes erres pour defendre l'innocence, & rapporter
au vray ce qui est de leurs actions, & deportements: ainsi que i'ay
promis de faire en l'Auant-propos. Et jaçoit qu'à cest'occasion nous
serons contraincts souuent de particulariser plusieurs [119] petits
affaires, non guiere bien conuenables à la grauité d'vn' histoire, ny
à la dignité d'vn Lecteur honnorable; toutesfois i'estime que de ceste
mienne dilig[~e]ce on pourra tirer trois grands fruicts, outre la
recognoissance de la verité d'auec les fraudes, & bourdes, qui de soy
mesme seroit fort profitable.
CHAPTER XII. [i.e., xi.]
ON THE CAUSES WHICH LED THE JESUITS TO GO TO NEW FRANCE IN 1611,
AND WHAT HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THERE BY THE FRENCH FROM THE YEAR
1608 UP TO THE TIME OF THEIR ARRIVAL.
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