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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6), volume 1

Note 497 — BOOK VI[427] (continued 2)

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Armand Louis de Delondarce, Baron de La Hontan (circa 1667-1715) served in Canada in 1703 and was subsequently the King of France's lieutenant in Newfoundland; he was accused of peculation and fled to Portugal and thence to Denmark. In 1705 he published his Voyages dans l'Amérique septentrionale.—T.

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