The Seigneurs of Old Canada: a Chronicle of New-World Feudalism, from Chronicles of Canada

First published in 1915. Part of the Chronicles of Canada series. "What would history be without the picturesque annals of the Gallic race? This is a question which the serious student may well ask himself as he works his way through the chronicles of a dozen centuries. From the age of Charlemagne to the last of the Bonapartes is a long stride down the ages; but there was never a time in all these years when men might make reckonings in the arithmetic of European politics without taking into account the prestige, the power, and even the primacy of France."