• discovery of the New World has long been affirmed in France. In 1660, Etienne Cleirac mentioned it in his Us et coustumes de la mer. The claim is also sometimes...
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    reach the New World "before any other people". The Bordeaux jurist Etienne de Cleirac (1647) made a similar claim, stating that the French Basques, in pursuing...
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  • reach the New World "before any other people". The Bordeaux jurist Etienne de Cleirac (1647) made a similar claim, stating that the French Basques, in pursuing...
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