Problem
A. What do you find most remarkable or surprising about the way the seigneurial system worked?
B. What were the main abuses of the seigneurial system in New France according to Raudot, and how could the Minister of the Marine remedy them?
C. It is fairly well known that lands within the seigneuries were laid out in relation to rivers. How might this distribution affect the way people socialized?
D. List some examples of the ways in which the Lanaudière family consolidated its power under the seigneurial system.
E. What kinds of dues did seigneurs extract from their censitaires? How lucrative were they for the former and burdensome for the latter?