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It is hard to define Champlain's social status in a single word. Parkman, besides styling him 'a Catholic gentleman, speaks of him elsewhere as being 'within the pale of the noblesse. On the other hand, the Biographie Saintongeoise says that he came from a family of fishermen. The most important facts would seem to be these.
Samuel Champlain, the issue of the marriage of Antoine Champlain and Marguerite Le Roy, was born at Brouage, now Hiers Brouage, a small village in the province of Saintonge, France, in the year 1570, or according to the Biographie Saintongeoise in 1567. His parents belonged to the Catholic religion, as their first names would seem to indicate.
Parkman, besides styling him 'a Catholic gentleman, speaks of him elsewhere as being 'within the pale of the noblesse. On the other hand, the Biographie Saintongeoise says that he came from a family of fishermen. The most important facts would seem to be these. It is also clear that he possessed sufficient social standing to warrant the use of de.
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