. New France and New England. -dousac, where the waters of the Saguenay flow into the The traffic in furs went on briskly, but the busi-ness of colonization was limited to the leaving of miserablegarrisons in the wilderness to perish of starvation and things went on from 1599 to 1603, when Chauvin on histhird voyage died in Canada. The partnership was thusbroken up, and the monopoly for the moment went a-begging. It was only for a moment, however. The governor ofDieppe since 1589 was Aymar de Chastes, a stout Catholicof the national party and a friend of Henry IV. On the
. New France and New England. -dousac, where the waters of the Saguenay flow into the The traffic in furs went on briskly, but the busi-ness of colonization was limited to the leaving of miserablegarrisons in the wilderness to perish of starvation and things went on from 1599 to 1603, when Chauvin on histhird voyage died in Canada. The partnership was thusbroken up, and the monopoly for the moment went a-begging. It was only for a moment, however. The governor ofDieppe since 1589 was Aymar de Chastes, a stout Catholicof the national party and a friend of Henry IV. On thegreat day of Arques in 1589, when the Leaguers boastedthat their fat Duke of Mayenne,i with his army of 30,000, ^ Mais im parti puissant, dune commune voix,Plagait deja Mayenne au trone de nos rois. Voltaire, La Henriade, vi. 61. THE BEGINNINGS OF QUEBEC 33 would make short work of the kini( with his 7000, when thefashionable world of Paris was hiring windows in the Fau-bourg St. Antoine, to see the rugged Bearnese brought in. HENRY IV tied hand and foot, it was largel} through the aid of Chastesthat Henry won his brilliant victory and scattered ^^ castg^the hosts of Midian.^ It was therefore not strange succeeds , , ^ „, ... , Chauvin that when, upon the death of Chauvin, this scarred and grizzled veteran asked for the monopol)- in furs, his 1 Michelet, Histoire de France, xii. 286; Gravier, \ie de C/tamphiin,p. 6. 34 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND request was promptly granted. Chastes soon found an ableally in Pontgrave, but even with the allurements of rich car-goes of peltries it was hard to get people to subscribe moneyfor such voyages. Loans for such purposes were classed onthe market as loans at heavy risk, and the rate of interestdemanded was usually from 35 to 40 per cent.^ While the preparations were briskly going on a new figureentered upon the scene, the noble figure of the founder ofNew France. Samuel Champlain was now about six andthirty years of age, having been bo
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