It was but natural in the new state of things that the French trapper, with all his knowledge of forest and stream, should become coureur des bois and voyageur, while the Englishman remained the barterer.
In winter the voyageur becomes coureur des bois to his new masters.
The life of a coureur de bois was wild and full of adventure, involving toil and exposure, but the possible profits were great and the element of danger appeared in the eyes of many an additional fascination.
The statement made in a previous chapter that Rene d'Amours was unmarried and lived the life of a typical "coureur de bois" is incorrect.
Rene d'Amours had an extensive trade with the Indians, he was unmarried and lived the life of a typical "coureur de bois.
A French coureur de bois, whose tragic death forms the subject of one of the popular chansons of Quebec.
Many a coureur du bois divided his tale of furs with a distressed noble or seigneur, who dare not work in the fields.
A couple of hours after Gering had thrown his hat and cloak into the blood of the coureur du bois, and slid down the anchor-chain, Iberville knew that his quarry was flown.
At that moment there came a knock, and in an instant the coureur du bois had caught the hands of the young man, and was laughing up in his face.
Jacques Morand, the coureur de bois, was in love with Genevieve Parent, but she disliked him and wished only to serve the church.
In days of peace the coureur de bois was looked on with less favour.
Large profits meant large risks, and the coureur de bois took his life in his hand.
It recked not to the coureur de bois when once his knees felt the bottom of the canoe.
Thus in the eyes of both Church and State the coureurde bois was a mauvais sujet, and the offence of taking to the forest without a licence became punishable by death or the galleys.
But, whatever the laws might say, the coureur de bois could not be put down.
Like the coureur de bois Nicolas Perrot, of exactly a century before, he was only the dawn of the light--the light of another day, which was beginning to appear in the valley.
It is the ironcoureur de bois, still leading Europe into America, and America into a newer America.
The railroad outran the settler and "beckoned him on," just as the coureurde bois outran the slower-going migrant and beckoned him on to ever new frontiers.
The railroad, the more modern coureur de bois and coureur de planche, has not served the new-world society merely as a connecting-link between communities already developed.
This coureur de bois Nicolet presents a grotesque appearance as he mounts the rims of the two valleys where the two bowls touch each other, bowls so full that in freshet the water sometimes overflows the brim and makes one continuous valley.
The buffalo, the coureurde bois, the engineer in turn.
Yet it would be false coloring to paint the half-savage coureur de bois as a romantic lover of nature.
First went the coureur de bois with the eau de vie; then followed, if he did not precede, the heroic missionary with the eau d'immortalite.
Luckily for Hennepin and his companions, the powerful coureur de bois, Daniel Graysolon Duluth (du Luth) appeared on the scene.
La Salle was a coureur de bois, most of this time, for he operated in a field far larger than that for which he had a license.
They heaped calumny upon his enterprises, labelled him a coureur de bois, and persistently wrecked his schemes.
Nicolas Perrot is a fine fellow, and a great coureur du bois, and helps to get the governor out of troubles to-day, the intendant to-morrow.
A notable coureur de bois (a French-Canadian wood-ranger) was Jean Nicollet.
Hitherto we have seen Pierre Radisson figure as a mere coureur de bois.
He wore a new suit of buckskin, with the coureur de bois' red sash knotted around his waist.
But two men had come between the disappearing child and him, one man, dressed partly like an officer and partly like a coureur de bois, throwing both arms around Tonty in the eager Latin manner.
Those were the days in which the coureur de bois difficulty was at its height; and, upon arriving at Sault Ste.
Accompanying these were about one hundred Frenchmen of the coureur de bois class, who in manners and customs were at times hardly distinguishable from their native companions.
The matter will be discussed in the following chapter; meanwhile let us briefly note the further development of the coureur de bois question to the end of Frontenac's first administration.
When St. Lusson, with the coureur de bois, Nicholas Perrot, took official possession of the Northwest for France at the Sault Ste.
The muscles, all whipcord, of these rugged Canadians, part coureur de bois, part scout, amazed him.
During those days whenever a wandering missionary would meet a soldier of fortune in a native village they would join with some coureur de bois to start a trading post.
Sieur Joliet took Anthony and the little slave and one coureur de bois and kept on down toward Quebec to report.
We walked around in their funny church a little; that's all," faltered the coureur de bois.
Almost any person who had capital enough to buy a canoe, arm and munitions, supplies, cutlery and beads, would outfit a coureur de bois and encourage him to try his luck.
But the coureur de bois--that laughing, hairy faun--had perished with the Indian.
It was a coureur de bois, not hurt in body, but so frightened that his state was pitiful.
The second canoe received one coureur de bois, one undersized half-breed interpreter, the slender Père Marquette and his choir boy, Anthony.
In former times a youth of ambition and enterprise, such as he, would have turned voyageur, coureur des bois.
Then I should be a coureur des bois indeed; an exile, fugitive, outlaw.
And now he is a failure, a coureur des bois, like me.
I not drawn the outline of the comedy cleverly enough, for a mere coureur de bois, a mere Canadian?
It took the barbarous coureur de bois to see through the paint!
I know I am nothing but a rough coureur de bois, in spite of my birth.
His letter will spare you all explanations with the mother, and this other will serve as an order for that gallant coureur de bois, her son, when he puts in an appearance, in the event of his visiting Beaulieu before I see him in Quebec.
Although thecoureur de bois has long since made his exit, there still remains in Canada a class of men who have somewhat in common with him.
The coureur de bois, who had reached the settlement later than his companion, grunted.
It is the Sieur de la Salle in the scarlet mantle," one coureur de bois said to another.
Coureur des bois,” an appellation often given to the Canadian and half–breed woodsmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coureur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
