Père Lalemant, in the Jesuit Relation of 1640, wrote: “The reputation of M. de Champlain, who stayed here [in Huronia] some twenty-two years ago, still lives in the minds of these barbarous people, who honor, even after the lapse of so many years, the many lovable virtues that they admired in him, and particularly his chastity and continence. Would God that all the French, who were the first to come into these regions, had been like him!”
Samuel Eliot Morison, Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972), 226
Short Stories on Honor, Chivalry, and the World of Nobility—no. 499
