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Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval

c. 1500–1560 · 16th century

Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval was a French nobleman and Protestant courtier whom Francis I appointed in 1541 as lieutenant-general of Canada to found a colony. Arriving in 1542, he wintered with his settlers at Cap-Rouge near present-day Quebec City, where many died of scurvy, and the colony was abandoned in 1543. He was killed in Paris in 1560.

Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval
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