HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: States Of Germany, Habitants, Feudalism
22 Nov 2012
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Week 4- new france and hierarchies of the soil. 1 october, 2012: coureur de bois vs. the habitant. The habitant put down permanent routes along the st lawrence and constituted the majority of. 1663 louis xiv wants to turn quebec into royal colony. 1720 20,000 people lived in new france/ 1760 50,000. Nouvelle france: from fur trade outpost to royal colony, seigneurial land system. Seigneurs given land, must have people live there permanently. We have freehold land system (own our land outright) Habitant and seigneur both had rights to the land: the feudal burden, cens et rentes. Cens et rentes were paid to the seigneur by the habitant: corv e. Corv e if the hab. didn t have payment, then they paid in work: lods et ventes. Lods et ventes, fee paid to the seigneur when land was sold: banalit . Banalit s 5% cut to the seigneur of the habitant s wheat: hierarchies: seigneur/clergy/habitant.
