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Jacques Cartier and France’s Atlantic Horizons by Elvira Viktória Tamus
·24 min·2 clips
Jacques Cartier heard locals call a region 'Kanata,' meaning village, which became the name Canada.
As heard by us
Cartier's Atlantic voyages are placed inside France's broader struggle with Habsburg power.
Jacques Cartier's voyages are framed as one part of France's wider contest with Habsburg power. The episode moves from Francis I's pressure during the Italian Wars into Cartier's expeditions, then settles into close readings of the voyage accounts: the Gulf of St.
Why you'd press play
You get Cartier, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and French geopolitics tucked inside an exploration story.
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