Vervins

No documents to that effect have been found in the treaty of Vervins or in the papers of the men who negotiated it.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

“La Paix de Vervins et les ambitions françaises en Amérique.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

After the Peace of Vervins, Henri IV sponsored colonizing ventures by an eccentric character with the exotic name of Troilus du Mesgoùez, marquis de la Roche-Helgomarche.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

This “Peace of Vervins” is little remembered today, but it was a pivotal event in early modern history.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

After 1598, he encouraged French settlement in Brazil and French trade in the West Indies, and he proclaimed a rule of retaliation against Spanish ships that attacked the French in those waters.31 Immediately after the Peace of Vervins, Henri IV also made clear to other rulers that he meant to exercise sovereignty in the region of North America that was widely recognized as New France on European globes.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

In May of 1598, many French and Spanish leaders met together in the town of Vervins and signed a formal treaty between their countries.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

(Seyssel, 1990); also James B. Collins, “La Guerre de la Ligue et le bien public,” in Jean-François Labourdette, Jean-Pierre Poussou, and Marie-Catherine Vignal, eds., Le Traité de Vervins (Paris, 2000), 81–96.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Thierry, “La Paix de Vervins,” 375; quoting David Asseline, Antiquités et chroniques de la ville de Dieppe Dieppe, 1874 2:149.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The Peace of Vervins was wearing thin, and the French government was unable to protect even its coastal waters.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

European rulers had already drawn many lines on maps of the Atlantic Ocean, before and after the treaty of Vervins.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008