years to come. When Richelieu decided to form the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, Jean de Lauson was accepted as one of its first members, on the very day of its founding, 29 April 1627. He played

went to France to obtain from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés the fishing monopoly at Tadoussac. Charles Legardeur rapidly became a person of

three months later he revoked the Edict of Nantes as applied to New France and founded the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, which he started upon a programme of intensive colonization, exclusively Catholic in

had an audience with Richelieu and, thanks to the intervention of his former penitent, the Duc de Ventadour, he obtained from the cardinal, at the time of the founding of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés

acquired a grant of land on the outskirts of Quebec; on 5 April 1639 this grant was to be confirmed by a title-deed issued by the Compagnie des Cent-Associés. In 1641 he was at Dieppe. He

returned from France, he delivered to d’Ailleboust an important and unexpected message: the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, as well as the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, was recalling d’Ailleboust to France

region. On 25 Feb. 1661, for the purpose of hunting and fishing, Byssot received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés title to the first piece of

probably two years earlier, to attend to the interests of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and later became the head clerk of the Communauté des Habitants

officer whom the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France had sent to the colony in 1660, as a comptroller general, an intendant of the Cent-Associés, and a sovereign judge; his

ship – one of the fleet of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés under the command of the admiral Roquemont

develop the land grant of Mingan, which his father had received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés in 1661; it extended from “Île aux Œufs . . . as far as Sept-Îles and into Grande Anse, towards

; d. in 1650 at La Rochelle. Pierre de Puiseaux arrived in Canada shortly after having received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, on 15

to negotiate with the directors of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés the transfer of the fur-trading monopoly. The agreement came into effect on 14 Jan. 1645 and was ratified by the king on 6

the Compagnie de La Nouvelle-France, or the Compagnie des Cent-Associés as it is often called. Participants included Richelieu himself, Champlain, and Razilly, who was appointed naval commander for

of Dieppe, one of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés who had left France to relieve Champlain at Quebec

Compagnie des Cent-Associés, Vimont had the task of clearing the name of the Jesuits in Canada; they had been charged with taking part in the fur trade. In 1645, at the time of the peace negotiations with the

, Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (6 tomes in 7v., Montréal, 1955–99), 3 (La Seigneurie des Cent-Associés, 1627–1663), tome 1 (Les événements).

 Rivière et de Brétigny, a member of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and of Marguerite Thiersault; d. 18 June 1675 in Martinique (he must not be confused with Joseph-Antoine Poncet, another Jesuit

frontage of a quarter of a league and a depth of one and a half leagues, had been granted to him by the Cent-Associés on the preceding 28 March; three years later, on 20 Nov. 1640, he bought

of 1628. In 1643 he was making lime for the Compagnie des Cent-Associés. At the end of June 1628 Champlain, alarmed by the approach of the