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France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

by Francis Parkman

"France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in…" by Francis Parkman is a historical work published in 1867. This second volume chronicles the French Jesuit missionaries who arrived in Canada in 1632, documenting their experiences in New France. Drawing extensively from Jesuit letters and reports, particularly those of François Le Mercier, Parkman reconstructs the missionaries' encounters with indigenous peoples and their struggles to establish a religious presence in the wilderness of seventeenth-century North America.

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