Verrazano meets the first Americans

And the mystery of where the first French speaking Indian came from

    In researching my ‘A Short History of New France’ I came across a mystery that made me dig a little deeper. The explorer Jacques Cartier sailed from St. Malo, Brittany, France on May 15, 1535 with a fleet of three ships. This was his second voyage to the place already called New France and this was the mystery that tickled my intellectual fancy. How…