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  • On the La Tours, for a celebration see Azarie Couillard-Després, Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, gouverneur, lieutenant-général en Acadie, et son temps, 1593–1666 Arthabaska, 1930.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Their dress ran to highly patterned and richly decorated buckskin coats and leggings, blanket coats for men; and black dresses with bright shawls and sashes for women.60 Creative political systems were invented, as open and free as those of the Indians, but with a chief called le gouverneur and elected leaders called les soldats.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Their dress ran to highly patterned and richly decorated buckskin coats and leggings, blanket coats for men; and black dresses with bright shawls and sashes for women.60 Creative political systems were invented, as open and free as those of the Indians, but with a chief called le gouverneur and elected leaders called les soldats.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • On the La Tours, for a celebration see Azarie Couillard-Després, Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, gouverneur, lieutenant-général en Acadie, et son temps, 1593–1666 Arthabaska, 1930.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, gouverneur, lieutenant-général en Acadie, et son temps, 1593–1666 Arthabaska, 1930.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, gouverneur, lieutenant-général en Acadie, et son temps, 1593–1666 Arthabaska, 1930.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • "Formosaense regeering, onder Nicolaes Verburgh, gewesen gouverneur in Tayouan en over Formosa, met een appendix van diergelijcke stof, of samen-spraeck tusschen Ian ende Gerrit, beyde schoolmeesters, d'eene in Soulang en d'ander in Favorlang een wijle tijdts geresideert hebende, behelsende den verleden stant aldaer."

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Cette polémique s'ajoute à une autre puisque notre cher gouverneur a traité un des volontaires de son challenger de MACACA mot qui ne veut rien dire en anglais mais qui ressemble étrangement à macaque.

    "The sad fate of George Allen's A-list advisers." Ann Althouse 2006

  • When you hear of a gouverneur, a lieutenant du Roi, a commandant, and an intendant of the same province, is, it not natural, is it not becoming, is it not necessary, for a stranger to inquire into their respective rights and privileges?

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Burse 閠o顃 aussi le s閖our de Camusat Bayschat (pacha), seigneur, ou, comme nous autres nous dirions, gouverneur et lieutenant de la Turquie.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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