caa a22 4500 388052511 CHVBK 20180307125057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0212610900007096 doi S0212610900007096 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0212610900007096 Empire and Economic Growth: the Case of 18th Century France [Elektronische Daten] Among the colonial powers of the early modern period, France was the last to emerge. Although, the French had not abstained from the exploration of fhe New World in the 16th century: G. de Verrazano discovered the site of New York (1524), during a voyage sponsored by King Francis I; Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal (1535). From the early 16th century, many ships from ports such as Dieppe, St. Malo, La Rochelle, went on privateering and or trading expeditions to the Guinea coast, to Brazil, to the Caribbean, to the Spanish Main. Many French boats did fish off Newfoundland. Some traded in furs on the near-by Continent. Moreover, during the 16th century, sporadic attempts were made to establish French settlements in <<Equinoctial France>> (Brazil), in Florida, in modern Canada, but they failed utterly. Undoubtedly, foreign wars against the Habsburgs, during the first half of the 16th and of the 17th centuries, civil <<wars of religion>> during the second half of the 16th century, political disorders like the blockade of La Rochelle or the Fronde during the first part of the 17th century, absorbed the attention and resources of French rulers, despite some ambitious projects, like those of Richelieu, for overseas trade. As for the port cities they tried to trade overseas but they were isolated and not strong enough (specially during die wars of religion) to create <<colonies>>. Some small companies, which had been started in 1601 and 1604, to trade with the East Indies, were very short-lived, and the French did not engage seriously in Asian trade before 1664. Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1998 Butel Paul Crouzet François Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 177-193 0212-6109 16:1<177 1998 16 RHE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900007096 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900007096 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Butel Paul NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crouzet François NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 177-193 0212-6109 16:1<177 1998 16 RHE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge