Champlain's Dream Quotes

“Every Canadian winter was a mortal challenge to its habitants.”
― David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream

“Two generations ago, historians wrote of European saints and Indian savages. In the last generation, too many scholars have been writing about Indian saints and European savages. The opportunity for our generation is to go beyond that calculus of saints and savages altogether, and write about both American Indians and Europeans with maturity, empathy, and understanding.”
― David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream

“The island was said to be “completely covered with pigeons.” Thousands of them fattened on the raspberries, and the settlers fed on the pigeons.16”
― David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream

“Rarely was Richelieu accused of leniency. In his hubris, he was alleged to have said, “Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him.”14”
― David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream

“Some of these words appear in metropolitan French, but a person of Saintonge who speaks the parlanjhe of the region is uniquely called a goulebenèze, literally, a happy mouth.”
― David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream

“Long voyages under sail with crews that spoke many tongues made a ship into a language school.”
― David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream