ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the annual conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century Studies in 2006, was published with the acts of that meeting in Cahiers du dix-septime: an Interdisciplinary Journal in Winter 2008. For Champlain, translations appear on the same page of this edition; for Lescarbot, citations refer to French original, then English translation. The French are more interested in the courtly life than in the colonial opportunity presented to them. In this critical reading of texts, the French humanists turned to law, especially to that of Rome. The French and the Amerindians share a common ancestor. The implication here is that for Lescarbot, the French and the Amerindians are but one people. The Histoire de la Nouvelle-France allows the reduction of chaos in two areas: the incommensurability of America, and the current state of the French. New France becomes, then, the site of a double francisation, that of the New World native and that of its colonisers.
