Polemic and History in French Brazil, 1555-1560
The brief history of Ft. Coligny, a sixteenth-century French fortress built in Guanabara Bay, Brazil, is difficult to explain fully. Most of the few surviving sources that describe this colonial failure are of questionable reliability. This includes two written accounts published by Jean Crespin and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1996
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1996, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 385-397 |
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| Summary: | The brief history of Ft. Coligny, a sixteenth-century French fortress built in Guanabara Bay, Brazil, is difficult to explain fully. Most of the few surviving sources that describe this colonial failure are of questionable reliability. This includes two written accounts published by Jean Crespin and Jean de Lery, which have usually been regarded as mutually supportive. This study reveals how and why these two works cannot be considered by historians as reliable evidence. Both the publication circumstances of each account and the illogical and impossible claims that each contains suggest that this version of events has been intentionally distorted by the religious, political, and personal biases of its authors. A more reasonable re-creation of this outpost's tragic history emerges only after one discounts the demonstrable exaggerations and falsifications of Crespin and Lery. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2544140 |