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Introduction to Samuel de Champlain's voyages
France, together with Portugal, Holland, Sweden, and England, followed the
lead of Spain. Each nation envied the growing wealth and power of Spain that
were derived from its possessions in the New World. Each nation, therefore,
saw its future position as dependent upon New World colonies.
The first French voyager of note was Jacques Cartier, who began his
explorations of North America in 1534. But Samuel de Champlain was responsible
for a series of French explorations into North America in the late sixteenth
and early seventeenth centuries that resulted in the founding of the first
successful French colony at Quebec in 1608. The passage is taken
from Champlain's writings, the sense of European competition, particularly
with Spain, for the New World is well-developed.
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