In flight this week we had to research one of three people from New France. I chose Jean Talon. After researching this man from the past I realized that New France was actually aged by him through his actions. I felt as if this project was fun and not completely boring. During this project I really learned how to use explain everything to its full potential. With projects at the beginning of the year I new how to “use it” but not in any amazing way. I can now see why we use explain everything in flight because it’s an all round good app for school. What we actually had to do for the project was we had to wright a paragraph on the person but also make a explain everything 2 minutes long.

Jean talon

Jean Talon was born in Châlons-en-Champagne to Philippe Talon and Anne Marie de Bury on January 8, 1626. He was baptized on August 1, 1626. After studying at the Jesuits College of Clermont, Talon was employed in a commissariat. His abilities soon became apparent and when he was thirty then he was promoted to the position of Intendant for the province of Hainault. He was the first intendant of New France. Talon was appointed to the role of the intendant by King Louis XIV

When an Intendant was needed for the task of bringing the dying New France back to life Colbert an administrator of France thought immediately of Jean Talon. Colbert recommended him to the king.

Talon attempted to change the economic base of the colony from fur-trading to agriculture. In order to do this he needed a larger population. Talon arranged for settlers to come to New France. In this movement included over 1,000 women. These women were young orphans that came to New France to marry men that lived there. He encouraged population growth through marriage grants and baby bonuses which was financial compensation given to a couple when they married as well as when they had children.

Talon also tried to diversify the economy by introducing new crops such as flax and hops for making beer he did this by starting a shipyard and lumber industry as well as by encouraging mining.

Jean Talon had saved the colony from destitution through the implementation of policies that promoted agriculture, colonization, trade, industry and naval construction. He strengthened the foundation on which justice and government was placed. Sadly Jean Talon died on November 24 1694 at the age of sixty-eight.

I used Wikipedia as the only source for this assignment

I forgot to put in a bibliography for the video so I’m putting it before it.

I used Creative Commons to find googles images and the info was from Wikipedia