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Jean Baptiste Talon

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Baptiste Talon , 1625?-1694, intendant of New France, b. France. He entered French administrative service c.1653. In his short tenure (1665-68, 1670-72) as intendant of New France he accomplished much. He encouraged agriculture, sent prospectors to hunt for minerals and to explore little-known territory, made energetic efforts to introduce brewing, lumbering, and shipbuilding industries, planned for trade with the West Indies and France, and encouraged immigration so vigorously that the population almost doubled during his tenure. After his return to France in 1672, he became a royal secretary.... Read more
Jean Talon
Jean Talon Jean Talon (1626-1694), a French intendant...and baptized on Jan. 8, 1626, Jean Talon entered the royal service in...charge of colonial affairs, Jean Baptiste Colbert, persuaded Talon to accept the intendancy of... Read more
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...companies ended, for a time, in 1663 when Louis XIV made the region, then known as New France, a royal colony and chose Jean Baptiste Talon to be intendant, or administrator. The long struggle to protect the colony and the fur trade from the Iroquois... Read more

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