About this book
Adieu à la France Sur l'embarquement du sieur de Poutrincourt et de son Équipage faisant voile en la terre de Canadas dicte la France Occidentalle by Marc Lescarbot is a stirring, elegiac poem that bids tender farewell to homeland and charts the hopes of an early colonial voyage. Composed in 1606, Lescarbot’s lyric unfolds as a cascade of vivid images—church steeples, flowering meadows, vine-clad coasts, murmuring rivers—and a resolute gaze toward the hazardous promise of New France under figures like de Monts and Poutrincourt.
Blending devotional tones, patriotic sentiment, and maritime metaphor, this work captures the interplay of literature and early modern imperial ambition. As poetry rooted in the era of Acadian settlement, it illuminates themes of exile, memory, piety, and the rhetoric of exploration without diminishing its intimate, homesick voice. Lescarbot’s verse acts both as a personal adieu and as a public testament to enterprise and posterity.
Ideal for listeners of historical poetry, Francophone literature enthusiasts, and students of early colonial history, this audiobook offers a lyrical window into the emotional and cultural currents of 17th-century France—and the literary imagination that accompanied the first voyages to Canada.
