When the French Were Here
Champlain Quadricentennial
Keynote Speaker Bios
David Hackett FischerBrandeis University, author of recent book “Champlain’s Dream.”
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Eric ThierryUniversity of Paris (Sorbonne), “Champlain and the Iroquois.”
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Raymonde LitalienHonorary Archivist of Canada, “Historical Antecedents of Lake Champlain’s Exploration.”
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David Hackett Fischer is the Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Author of eleven books, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History (2005) for Washington`s Crossing. Paul Revere`s Ride (1994) and Champlain`s Dream (2008) were named Notable Books by the New York Times. Albion`s Seed (1989), required reading for all Champlain College students, is now in its twenty-third printing. He has co-edited the fifteen volume series Pivotal Moments in American History with James McPherson of Princeton University. He is currently at work on a book on the middle years of the American Revolution.
Eric Thierry, a fellow of the University of Paris – Sorbonne`s Center for Research of the Literature of Voyage (CRLV) obtained his doctorate at the Sorbonne. He was awarded a silver medal in Renaissance history by the Académie Française for Marc Lescarbot (Paris 2001). Dr. Thierry is also author of The France of Henri IV on North America (Paris 2008). His most recent publication is an annotated modern French edition of Champlain`s Voyages of 1619 (2008). A new edition of Champlain`s Voyages of 1632 is forthcoming this year.
Raymonde Litalien, Honorary Conservator of the National Archives of Canada, obtained her degree in Literature from the University of Montréal and a PhD in History from the Sorbonne. From 1977 to 2005, she directed a team that identified and microfilmed more than a million and a half Canada-related document pages to enrich Canadian collections. She coordinated a joint France-Canada project in digitizing and posting on the Internet all known documentation on New France (
