La Prairie en Nouvelle-France, 1647-1760Parish registers, notarial acts, administrative and judicial archives were used extensively to provide a comprehensive view of the formation and evolution of this society in its seigneurial context. In La Prairie en Nouvelle France the seigneury comes into its own as a vantage point from which to view Canadian society under the French rgime. The comparative approach that informs the entire work permits parallels and contrasts between colonial and