brezil

Updated: July 27, 2025

It is possible, indeed, that not only had he been in Brazil, but that he had carried a native of that country to France. In a baptismal register of St Malo is recorded the christening, in 1528, of a certain 'Catherine of Brezil, to whom Cartier's wife stood godmother.

Stephen Leacock - The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier