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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:48:35 EDT
"To a certain extent, New France had become a little Paris. It was a pocket
of French culture transplanted into the St. Lawrence Valley. If this made for
elegant balls and airs of refinement among the upper echelons, it also meant
that certain anachronistic elements were preserved and kept alive in Canada long
after their demise elsewhere. One such example was the distinct form of
feudalism that took root in New France in the 1620s and that would last for more
than two hundred years, ending only in 1854, long after the French Revolution
had wiped out the hereditary rights of the landed gentry back in France."
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