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Strange Bedfellows: Turks, Gauls, and Amerindians in Lescarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle France
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This is the accepted version of the following article: True, Micah. “Strange Bedfellows: Turks, Gauls, and Amerindians in Lescarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle France.” French Review, vol. 87, no. 4, 2014, 139-151., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2014.0214. The text of this article is provided here with the permission of the French Review. It may be used only for scholarly, non-profit purposes.
Early modern travel writers often compared the New World’s inhabitants to more familiar cultures. The French traveler Marc Lescarbot is a prominent example. Compared to other cultures, Amerindians emerge in his Histoire de la Nouvelle France (1609) as a favorable model for France to emulate. This article examines an overlooked point of comparison that superficially would seem to undermine Lescarbot’s favorable outlook on the Amerindian: the Turk. Lescarbot wrote about Turks in surprisingly positive terms, a fact that brings nuance to scholarly understandings of seventeenth-century France’s perception of the Ottoman Other, as well as the nature of colonial comparative ethnography.
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- 2014-01-01
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