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	Hiers-Brouage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brouage was founded in 1555 by Jacques de Pons on the Bay of Biscay facing the Atlantic Ocean.
		In 1825 Brouage was joined to the village of Hiers, 2.5 km away, forming the commune of Hiers-Brouage.
		The walls of the remparts of the citadel of Brouage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brouage (281 words)

	European Explorers: Samual de Champlain
		Champlain was born in Brouage, France, near Rochefort, the son of a sea captain.
		Samuel de Champlain was born in Brouage, France in 1567 and died in 1635.
		Champlain was born at Brouage in western France in 1567.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/exchamplain.htm (597 words)

	Fortified Places > Fortresses > Brouage
		The fortified town of Brouage is located at 3 km from the coast between the river Charente to the north and the river Seudre to the south, facing the straights of Rochefort, alongside the bay of Brouage.
		Brouage can be easily reached by car or motorbike by driving 46km from the Saintes exit 35 of the motorway A10 on the D728 and D3 from Marennes.
		Louis XIV and was exiled in Brouage by her uncle Cardinal Mazarin to prevent the interference of the relationship in his political schemes).
	www.fortified-places.com /brouage.html (1431 words)

	Bernezac.com - Brouage France French Atlantic coast
		Established in 1555, the harbour of Brouage was the first European place for trading in salt.
		Brouage, 35 km away from Royan, 6 km north of Marennes, Brouage is an increasingly popular place to visit, which is totally justified by its history, the site and its evolution and the richness of the surrounding marsh.
		Brouage is also famous for the visit in 1659, of Marie Mancini, the niece of Cardinal Mazarin, loved by Louis XIV and taken away by the Cardinal for a state reason, this being to marry the young king to the infanta of Spain, Marie -Thérèse.
	www.bernezac.com /Brouage_uk.htm (545 words)

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		The forces that contributed to the formation of his character are mostly to be inferred from the abode of his early years, the occupations of those by whom he was surrounded, and the temper and spirit of the times in which he lived.
		Brouage is situated in a low, marshy region, on the southern bank of an inlet or arm of the sea, on the southwestern shores of France, opposite to that part of the Island of Oleron where it is separated from the mainland only by a narrow channel.
		On the seventh of June, 1598, the peace of Vervins was published in Paris, and the kingdom of France was a unit, with the general satisfaction of all parties, under the able, wise, and catholic sovereign, Henry the Fourth.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/8vcv110u.txt (19533 words)

	Samuel De Champlain - LoveToKnow 1911
		SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN (1567-1635), French explorer, colonial pioneer and first governor of French Canada, was born at Brouage, a small French port on the Bay of Biscay, in 1567.
		He was gone over two years, visiting all the principal ports and pushing inland from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico.
		During his absence de Chastes had died, and his privileges and fur trade monopolies were conferred upon Pierre de Guast, sieur de Monts (1560-1611).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Samuel_De_Champlain (1101 words)

	Brouage and Marennes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Eighteen kilometres southwest of Rochefort, BROUAGE is another seventeenth-century military base, this time created by Richelieu after the siege of La Rochelle.
		The way into Brouage is through the Porte Royale in the north wall of the totally intact fortifications dating from the mid-seventeenth century.
		In the same century, Brouage witnessed the last painful pangs of a royal romance: here, Cardinal Mazarin, successor to Richelieu, locked up his daughter, Marie Mancini, to keep her from her youthful sweetheart, Louis XIV.
	france-for-visitors.com /atlantic/la-rochelle/brouage-and-marennes.html (467 words)

	Marennes Oléron coastal fortifications: visiting Brouage
		Visiting Brouage, a town that was of strategic importance for defending the rich Saintongeais coast, is like reading a brief history of architecture.
		The food market was the storehouse for an administration which extended from the mouth of the Charente to the Gironde Estuary.
		Whether arriving from other parts of Europe or setting off for the Caribbean, they all found or brought to Brouage foreign languages, precious articles and rare merchandise, the remains of which now illustrate the richness of its history.
	www.charente-maritime.org /charente_uk/ile_oleron/fortifications_cotieres/brouage_visite.htm (357 words)

	Bernezac.com - Brouage, in the marsh of Brouage, France, Atlantic coast,
		Bernezac.com - Brouage, in the marsh of Brouage, France, Atlantic coast,
		After about 3 km, at the entry of the village of Hiers', level with the church, take the road to the left which leads directly to Brouage and go through Hiers and continue straight ahead on the D238.
		Marshes offer a very privileged environment for the preservation and development of a large variety of birds and are internationally of interest because they are used as a stopping place for large populations of migratory birds".
	www.bernezac.com /Brouage_marais_uk_print.htm (359 words)

	Villa complex les Tremieres
		Towns such as Brouage, Royan, Rochefort, la Rochelle and Saintes, and the nearby island "Ile d’oléron" can be easily reached from les Trémières.
		Brouage is the perfect place for Arts and Craft lovers as it has a great variety of little shops and boutiques as well as numerous restaurants.
		It is build at 400 meters from the shore and is linked to the coast by a road wich is accessible during the low tide.
	www.lestremieres-marennes-oleron.com /contenu/anglais/balad.html (713 words)

	Pierre Miville dit Deschênes and Charlotte Maugis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		She was baptized on 13 Dec 1632 in N. Dame de Brouage, Rochefort, dioc.
		She was baptized on 18 Nov 1636 in N. Dame de Brouage, Rochefort, dioc.
		She was baptized on 24 Jan 1640 in St-Hilaire d'Hiers, Brouage, Rochefort, dioc.
	www.upperstjohn.com /nellie/d125.htm (205 words)

	The Maison Champlain in Brouage
		This seventeenth century fortified community, famous for its ramparts and lookout towers, was for many years the salt capital of Europe in the days when salt was white gold.
		Picture a small town to which people—traders and merchants—flocked from the time it was founded in 1555, and which very quickly grew to a large city of 4,000—rather hard to believe today.
		Among these researchers sifting through the earth at Brouage are five Canadian students, four of whom are from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
	www.canada-2004.org /maisonchamplain/presentation.php?langue=EN (614 words)

	Hiking pictures from Marennes and Brouage (GR 4) - Ronce-les-Bains --> Champagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The day begins with the crossing of the Seudre on a high bridge, then the path carefully goes around Marennes without entering it, alternating glimpses of old houses and of small woods.
		Then the dry marshes of Brouage ; the walk can be alternatively very nice when the view is ample or painful when blocked between a canal and its embankment covered with hideous yellow flowers.
		Brouage is a port which has lost access to the sea ; it is now a very touristic place where I stop for restaurant -I still remember the leek oysters ten years later.
	www.lavaurs.com /en/etapes/0110 (140 words)

	Marennes Oléron coastal fortifications: Brouage or Jacopolis
		Brouage has a long tradition of being a melting pot of languages and cultures.
		When it was founded around 1555, ships had been visiting the gulf of Saintonge for more than 1000 years, leaving their indelible mark on the area.
		The town was rich and prosperous and was of strategic importance for Protestants and Catholics alike, until it became part of the Kingdom of France under Louis XIII.
	www.charente-maritime.org /charente_uk/ile_oleron/fortifications_cotieres/brouage-jacopolis.htm (288 words)

	Brouage & La Rochelle
		The seaport of La Rochelle is where the marine who trained in Brouage would debark for Canada.
		Prior to the colonization era Brouage and La Rochelle were often at war with one another.
		La Rochelle was Catholic and Brouage was Hugonaut or Protestant.
	tafdc.org /html/brouage___la_rochelle.html (171 words)

	Miville
		Until then primarily a fishing port, Brouage, with the construction of its great Citadel there, was transformed into a strategic training area for the elite of France’s military.
		The death of Cardinal Richelieu in 1642 precipitated the War of the Fronds, an attempt by the nobles of France to regain control of the Crown.
		One such insurgent, Louis Foucault du Daugnon, seized the newly fortified Brouage in 1646 after the death of it's Governor, and withstood all attempts by Royal Troops to regain the city.
	www.miville.net /History.Html (6396 words)

	Jean Grondin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He was born about 1646, at Saint-Marie de Brouage, Canton of Marennes, Arrondisement of Rochefort, in the Charente-Maritime, formerly the territory of Saintonge.
		It was at Brouage that, Pierre Miville and Charlotte Maugis were married, about 1631.
		Champlain, the father of New France, was born at Brouage.
	www.jamesgagne.net /GagneHistory/G/Grondin,Jean.htm (2713 words)

	Salem Press
		Scattered evidence and informed speculation have placed it as early as 1564 and as late as 1573; authorities seem to be divided fairly equally between 1567 and 1570.
		Champlain was born and reared on the Atlantic coast of France in the town of Brouage, a small seaport important for the salt trade.
		During the years of his youth, Brouage was a minor prize in the bitter religious wars between the Catholics and the Calvinist Huguenots.
	salempress.com /Store/samples/great_lives_from_history_seventeenth/great_lives_from_history_seventeenth_samuel.htm (2297 words)

	Exhibitions/Departure/Points of Departure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the age of discovery, the French ports along the Atlantic shoreline and the English Channel were naturally attracted to the New World.
		From Bayonne to Dieppe, by way of the salt-rich ports of Saintonge, such as Brouage (birthplace of Samuel de Champlain), ships travelling the sea routes with North America supplied all of France with cod.
		When the fur trade and colonial settlements began to develop, La Rochelle became the favourite embarkation point for emigration and commerce with the colonies.
	www.champlain2004.org /html/01/01_e.html (103 words)

	Brouage
		Founded around 1555 by Jacques de Pons, Brouage played a strategic role in the defence of the coast of Saintonge (the country around Saintes).
		Architectural treasures remain from this period and their history will be recounted as you follow one of the many guided tours of the region.
		Take the time to discover the Living Hall, the European Centre for Military Architecture where an exhibition has been set up around relief models and facsimiles of ancient maps and plans.
	www.campings-natureocean.com /anglais/06_visites_pays/brouage.php (79 words)

	Greg Bard's Genealogical Records
		Brouage, Charente-Maritime (Saintonge), France Marriage: abt 1648 Marie Rigoulet Brouage, Charente-Maritime (Saintonge), France
		Brouage, Charente-Maritime (Saintonge), France Marriage: abt 1648 Pierre Grondin Brouage, Charente-Maritime (Saintonge), France
		M Jean Grondin Birth: abt 1642 St. Marie, V. Brouage (Auj.
	www.shocking.com /~gregbard/genealogy/fam03297.php (242 words)

	Pierre Miville, dit Le Suisse
		However, shortly after the seige of La Rochelle, Richelieu delegated his duty as governor to his uncle Amador de la Porte, who also had at his disposal a few Swiss, who were, until then, part of the cardinal's guards.
		According to the historian Francois Julien Labruyere, the harbor of Brouage, "the most beautiful in France", was narrowing after the residents of La Rochelle, in 1586, had poured twenty barges full of stones into it.
		They wanted to make it the principal support of the development of the salt mines but, twenty-nine years after its creation, this was the main cause of the failure of the salt mines in the gulf of Saintonge.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/2985.htm (3432 words)

	Schulers Books (The French in the Heart of America - 3/57)
		Meanwhile in Brouage on the Bay of Biscay a boy is born whose spirit, nourished of the tales of the new world, is to make a permanent colony where Cartier had found and left a wilderness, and is to write his name foremost on the "bright roll of forest chivalry"--Samuel Champlain.
		There are still to be seen, several feet below the surface, rings to which mariners and fishermen moored their boats--they who used to come to Brouage for salt with which to cure their fish, they whose stories of the Newfoundland cod-banks stirred in the boy Champlain the desire for discovery beyond their fogs.
		The St. Lawrence Valley has not forgotten, but I could not learn that a citizen of the Mississippi Valley had made recent pilgrimage to this spot.
	www.schulers.com /books/jo/f/The_French_in_the_Heart_of_America/The_French_in_the_Heart_of_America3.htm (949 words)

	The Atlas of Canada - Audio Transcript of Samuel de Champlain (of Brouage, France; for France) 1603 to 1607
		Exploration 1497 to 1760 » Audio Transcript of Samuel de Champlain (of Brouage, France; for France) 1603 to 1607
		Audio Transcript of Samuel de Champlain (of Brouage, France; for France) 1603 to 1607
		Audio Transcript: Champlain's function on his first journey to Canada was to "see the country, and what the colonisers might accomplish there." The expedition left Honfleur, France on 15 March 1603 and reached Tadoussac on 24 May. During the summer, Champlain explored the St. Lawrence River up to the Lachine Rapids.
	atlas.nrcan.gc.ca /site/english/maps/historical/exploration/1603_07_champlain.mov/view (254 words)

	Canada-France 1604-2004
		The venerable, 450-year-old town of Brouage is one of the most visited historical sites in the Charente-Maritime region, welcoming half a million visitors each year.
		As Brouage is also Samuel de Champlain’s birthplace, it is a places of great historical significance for Canada in France.
		This is one the reasons why Canada and France have decided to build the Maison Champlain together on a piece of land that was owned by the explorer’s family.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /canada-europa/france/canada2004/initiative-en.asp (961 words)

	The Atlas of Canada - Audio Transcript of Samuel de Champlain (of Brouage, France; for France) 1608 to 1616
		Exploration 1497 to 1760 » Audio Transcript of Samuel de Champlain (of Brouage, France; for France) 1608 to 1616
		Audio Transcript of Samuel de Champlain (of Brouage, France; for France) 1608 to 1616
		Audio Transcript: In 1608 Champlain returned to the St. Lawrence, this time as lieutenant to the Sieur de Monts with instructions to found a settlement.
	atlas.nrcan.gc.ca /site/english/maps/historical/exploration/1608_16_champlain.mov/view (482 words)

	Untitled
		Samuel De Champlain was born in Brouage France, a small seaport town in 1567.
		When he was young, he navigated with his uncle.
		Champlain was born in a small seaport town in Brouage France.
	schools.sd68.bc.ca /ruth/Classes/mrtaylor/class20022003/explorers/champlainmichael/title.htm (435 words)

	BROUAGE, Brouage Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		BROUAGE, Brouage Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		The politics of the time made the Infanta of Spain a more suitable consort for the King of France than his daughter - in his own judgement.
		Finding her gone, he slept in her room and paced the walls in her footsteps.
	www.infohub.com /destinations/Europe-&-Russia/France/Brouage/81219.htm (392 words)

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