Loi, nationalité et mariages mixtes entre Français et autochtones

Le cas de l’arrêt du Conseil supérieur de la Louisiane du 18 décembre 1728

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ID6188632
AuthorsAlice Bairoch De Sainte-Marie (University of Geneva, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume17
Pages1-34
Publication date2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Colonial History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1539-3402 • E-ISSN: 1543-7787
PublisherMichigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14321/frencolohist.17.1.0001
OpenAlexW2766426184
LanguageFR
Citations received1
References cited10

Did Native people have the same rights as French people in the colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? They did, according to a law enacted in all the colonies. Indeed, once converted, aboriginal people could go and live in France, get married to French people, and inherit their wealth. However, the implementation of this law, which was specific to the French colonies, posed some problems. Marriages between French settlers and aboriginal women constituted a non-negligible loss of income for the colony. The law allowed an aboriginal widow to inherit the goods and wealth of her deceased husband. In these cases, the French judges, among other members of Louisiana’s Conseil superieur, were faced with the dilemma of either upholding the missionary vocation of the French colonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-a vocation used to justify the colonization of the New World-or preventing the loss of part of the colony’s wealth

Archaeology · Art · Colonization · Dilemma · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy

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