For a protestant New-France (1555-1565)

• Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (Brazil, 1555-1560)

  • New St-Paul to new Caen
  • Settlement destroyed by the Portuguese

• Jean de Ribault and De Laudonniere (Florida and Carolina, 1562-1565)

  • 1562-1564, Charlesfort (Between Charleston and Savannah)
  • 1564-1565, Fort Carolina
  • Settlement destroyed by the Spanish in 1565

• Under the influence of Admiral Coligny, a real politic will to create a refuge colony for the Huguenots
  

• «France had just miss the opportunity to soothe his religious problem and to change the history of Protestantism in America that would had predominated for a long time.» (Marcel Trudel)
  

Notes:

• For a protestant New-France (1555-1565)
  

• Under the influence of Admiral Coligny, the head of the protestant party and prime minister of France . The King will accept the fact that his protestant subjects could have a settlement where they could live and practice their religions.

• Villgaignon a former Catholic converted to Protestantism will be in charge of the new settlement in Brazil in 1555. They settled in Rio de Janeiro. At first, the zeal of Villegaignon asking ministers from Calvin for his settlement will be called the new St-Paul. But Villegaignon will soon come back to Catholicism and persecute the Protestant settlers. He will himself drowned three Protestant ministers. They will call him by now the new Caën He will return to France and the settlement will be destroyed by the Spanish.

• Two other attempts from 1562 to 1565 will be made by Jean Ribault and Mr. De Laudonnière. These settlements in Florida and Carolina will be destroyed again by the Spanish.

• In 1572, Coligny is killed in the St-Barthelemy’s massacre. That will be the end of the idea of a refuge colony for the Huguenots. As Marcel Trudel, a reputed French-Canadian Historian said. «France had just miss the opportunity to soothe his religious problem and to change the history of Protestantism in America that would had predominated for a long time.»