Marine Officers in Colonial Canada 1683-1760

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FOURNIER (Marcel) Les officiers des troupes de la marine au Canada. 1683-1760. Preface by Laurent Veyssière, military historian and general curator of heritage. Paris, Archives & Culture, 2018. Octavo softcover, illustrated cover, 524 pages, with index of personal names (and patronymic variants) and index of place names. The history of the Marine troops is intertwined with that of New France. Yet it remains little known to the general public and specialists alike. Seven Québécois and French authors present high-quality historical essays on the administrative, sociocultural, military, and socio-demographic history of Marine troop officers who served in Canada from 1683—when the decision was made to send these units to North America—to 1760, the fateful year of the military capitulation of the Canadian colony. Furthermore, the socio-demographic data presented in this work are largely unpublished, being the result of research conducted for the project. FOURNIER and his collaborators explore new perspectives on the presence and role played by Marine officers in the conquest of a continent in the name of the King of France. Fine copy.