Excerpt:

“A Frenchman becomes more of a savage than a savage becomes a Frenchman.“

Note:   Does this mean the French liked the Native way of life more than the Native people liked French way of life? If so, what might explain this?

Author: Marie de l’Incarnation, cited in HÉROUX, Denis, Robert LAHAISE and Noel VALLERAND. La Nouvelle-France, Montréal, Kébékédit, 1974, p. 41.

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