By Bill Marshall
A distinct, multidisciplinary encyclopedia protecting the affects that French and American politics, international coverage, and tradition have had on shaping each one country's identity.
• nearly 730 cross-referenced entries overlaying occasions and subject matters spanning four hundred years of French impact within the Americas, from Canada to Guiana
• broad bibliographies, over eighty illustrations, and essays from top students from each side of the Atlantic
• attracts seriously on fundamental resources in addition to the most recent monographs and magazine articles
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His request to address them was enabled by the fact that a technician from the French public service television channel SRC had placed a microphone on the balcony despite the explicit instructions of mayor Drapeau. This allowed the president to launch into his improvised but deeply felt and rather coherent speech. The event marked a turning point in relations between France and both Canada and Quebec. For even if Quebec’s leaders at the time were not seeking independence, they were very much in favor of further cooperation between the French and the Québécois.
This was the message he conveyed to the Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson on his visit to France in 1964, while holding back from hinting at the possibility of a sovereign Quebec. The famous “Vive le Québec libre,” de Gaulle’s final utterance from the balcony of Montreal city hall on July 24, 1967, was thus a faithful reflection of his outlook. However, the form it took was rather improvised. The president had hesitated about going to Quebec at the time of Expo 67, but went ahead on the insistence of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau and of Robert Bordaz, director of the French pavilion.
First Decade of the Nineteenth Century The transatlantic slave trade is outlawed. France is among the nations whose navies patrol off west Africa. France also establishes bases and trading posts on the coast. 1802 Napoléon is named Life Consul. Consul Victor Hueues reestablishes slavery in the colonies. Napoléon sends French troops to Santo Domingo to restore slavery. The French capture Toussaint L’Ouverture. Slave revolt in Guadeloupe. 1774 The Quebec Act grants the French Canadians certain linguistic and religious privileges.