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Marc Lescarbot
1570–1641
Best known for chronicling early French North America, this lawyer-turned-writer left one of the most vivid accounts of Acadia in the early 1600s. His work also includes a lively pageant often remembered as one of the first theatrical performances in what is now Canada.
5 Audiobooks
Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (Version 1617)
by Marc Lescarbot
La Defaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois par le Sagamos Membertou et ses alliez Sauvages, en la Nouvelle France, au mois de Juillet dernier, 1607
by Marc Lescarbot
Histoire de la Nouvelle France Relation derniere de ce qui s'est passé au voyage du sieur de Poutrincourt en la Nouvelle France depuis 10 mois ença
by Marc Lescarbot
Les Muses de la Nouvelle France
by Marc Lescarbot
About the author
Born around 1570 in Vervins, France, Marc Lescarbot trained as a lawyer and practiced in Paris. In 1606 he sailed to Acadia with Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt, and that journey gave him firsthand material for the writing he is remembered for today.
His best-known book, Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (1609), drew on both his own experience and wider research on French exploration in North America. The book became an important early account of New France and helped shape how European readers understood the region.
Lescarbot also wrote Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France, a pageant performed at Port-Royal in 1606 and often described as one of the earliest theatrical works staged in Canada. He is usually remembered as a writer who combined curiosity, storytelling, and eyewitness detail in a way that still gives his work historical value.