seigneurs

The rest of the money for the expedition came from the Godfreys, titled seigneurs of Three Rivers; Dame Sorel, widow of an officer in the Carignan Regiment; Le Chesnaye, La Salle's lieutenant, and others.

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

National Assembly, but of the so-called seigneurs, who have extorted or manufactured it; and therefore it is null.

The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

There are still 'seigneurs' who hold lands, and have 'censitaires' or tenants, paying fee-rent in produce, services, and money.

Canada and the States 1860

And it needed many "seigneurs" and "madames" to procure forgiveness for our admirable Racine for his monosyllabic "dogs!" and for so brutally bestowing Claudius in Agrippina's bed.

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

All I really know about Haydn's boyhood off the top of my head is that his family were peasants on the Esterhazy estates and Haydn's musical talent was noticed and cultivated by the seigneurs.

Haydn and the Habsburgs elena maria vidal 2009

Below the seigneurs were sous-seigneurs and habitants working long narrow strips of fertile land that ran back from the river.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

“Au Roy et à nos seigneurs de son conseil” Petition to the King and Lords of His Council, Feb. 1618.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

He tells us that it was a place for the “training and teaching” of “young men of the nobility and other well-born seigneurs.”

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Even so, an elite of feudal seigneurs became firmly established in New France.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The seigneurs of New France did not as a rule build great châteaux in splendid isolation; they lived modestly and farmed the land beside their tenants.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008