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| Navigator, royal cartographer, explorer and diplomat, Samuel de Champlain was born in Brouage in 1567. During his second expedition to North America in 1608, he established the town of Quebec and laid the foundations for ‘New France’. He died there on Christmas Day 1635. |
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 A Seasoned Explorer
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| Champlain made his first crossing of the Atlantic in 1599 to Central America. He stayed there for three years. He returned to France and then set out again in 1603, for the first time towards the north of the continent, where he went up the Saint-Laurent River with the intention of founding a colony there in the name of the kingdom. Samuel de Champlain spent the last years of his life there, with one objective: to ensure the populating of Quebec. He made a total of nearly twenty voyages between France and the New World. |
La Maison Champlain (The Champlain House) |
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Inaugurated in 2004 in Brouage, the Maison Champlain represents a place of memorial and encounter. Digitalised information about Champlain, Nouvelle France, and more widely on the relationship that united the two sides of the Atlantic is available for consultation. Visitors are also invited to discover the permanent exhibition ‘Champlain, une aventure saintongeaise en Amérique’ (Champlain: A Saintonge Adventure in America). For further information, contact the Maison Champlain on (33) 05 46 85 80 60 or the Brouage Tourist Office on (33) 05 46 85 19 16. |
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