When Talon arranged to have the Carignans disbanded in Canada he decided that they should be given lands in that section of the colony where they would be most useful in guarding New France at its most vulnerable point.
But when Talon came to the colony as intendant in 1665 this situation was quickly changed.
Talon thought that it would, hence he hastened to devise a plan whereby the Carignans might be kept permanently in Canada.
In the dexter or right talon is an olive branch, a symbol of peace; in the sinister or left talon is a bundle of 13 arrows.
An eagle struggling with a serpent rises into the clouds with it, and bears an open scroll in one talon on which we read, Demagogues may frown and Factions rage--Traitors may sigh and Tyrants weep, but Freemen will rejoice for.
The American eagle displays the shield of our country on his breast; one talon is upon a globe, the other grasps a cross.
On the coming of Talon in 1665, however, the idea of fostering home industries in the colony took active shape.
Colbert in his earliest instructions to Talon wrote as though this were the royal policy, but no other minister ever hinted at such a desire.
Along with his commission Talon brought to the colony a letter of instructions from the minister which, gave more detailed directions as to what things he was to have in view and what he was to avoid.
Talon had marked it as a place of importance some years before, and the English, authorities at Albany had been urged by the Iroquois chiefs to forestall any attempt that the French might make by being first on the ground.
In 1665 Jean Talon arrived at Quebec bearing a royal commission which gave him wide powers, infringing to some extent on the authority vested in the Sovereign Council two years previously.
In 1671 Talon reported to the French authorities that the Quebec brewery was capable of turning out four thousand hogsheads of beer per annum, and thus of creating a demand for many thousand bushels of malt.
They desired the governor to carry on the policy of encouraging agriculture which Talon had begun, thus solidifying the colony and making its borders less difficult to defend.
There was no intendant or bishop to hamper him, for both Talon and Laval had gone to France in 1672.
Beginning with the arrival of Talon as first intendant of the colony in 1665, the occupant of this post was also given a seat in the Council.
The reports sent home by Talon had stirred the national ambitions.
After the work of the regiment had been finished, Talon suggested to the King that it be disbanded in Canada, that the officers be persuaded to accept seigneuries, and that the soldiers be given lands within the estates of their officers.
So, for one reason or another, the infant industries languished, and, after Talon was gone, they gradually dropped out of existence.
Talon became intendant, when the government of New France, at the time of Louis XIV's minister, Colbert, became vested directly in the French crown.
Before Talon quitted the country, he took steps to extend the dominion of France in the New World toward Hudson's Bay, and westward, in the direction of the Great Lakes.
The new impulse which had been given to Canada by Colbert and Talon began to bear fruit.
Courcelles and Talon he opened a factory for the fur traffic at Lachine, near Montreal, a name which (China) he gave to the place in allusion to the oriental goal toward which his hopes tended as an explorer.
While thus engaged, the commissioner heard of the Mississippi River from the Indians; and Talon intrusted the task of tracking its waters to Father Marquette and to M.
These proposals being accepted, the bargain was soon completed, and the intelligent Talon had not deceived himself.
Relying on this judicious reasoning, Talon soon compelled the Aberdonians to eat his sugar-plums, and, better still, to pay for them.
Talon also promised a new performance, the secret of which he confided to the manager under the seal of discretion.
Talon packed up a second time and went to Aberdeen, to ask shelter from the Scotch mountaineers, to whom he offered in exchange his seductive cates.
Philippe Talon was born at Alais, near Nîmes; after having carried on his sweet trade of confectioner for some time in Paris, his want of success compelled him to expatriate himself.
It was Talon disguised by two cotton humps and the traditional costume.
It is simply," Talon continued, "to join to the attraction of your performance a lottery, for which I will pay all the cost.
Within a floral and star pattern border, the specimen is dominated by an eagle, on a sunburst background, that holds in its left talonfive arrows with points inward; above are 25 stars and an edge of clouds above.
The righttalon grasps a fluke of a fouled anchor, and the left talon holds the pike of a stand of colors.
The eagle has an out-sized, curved upper beak and is grasping lightning bolts in the right talon and an olive branch in the left.
The four arrows in the eagle's left talon are unusual.
In its right talon the eagle is grasping what appear to be rather stylized thunderbolts, and in its left, arrows.
In the center of the shield is the eagle, with wings widely outspread and with lightning bolts in the right talon and an olive branch in the left talon.
It is rectangular, with clipped corners, and is dominated by an eagle, with wings outspread, grasping lightning bolts in the right talon and an olive branch in the left talon.
Quin, a glass of wine for Mr. Talonto restore him.
Old Talon can't have paid the money to her lawyers by this.
Of course, he was supposed to look after the interests of France and of Canada, not after his own; and earlier intendants like Talon had done this with perfect honesty.
The next year he married Angelique Talon du Boulay, a member of a military family, and grand-daughter of Denis Talon; a kinsman of Jean Talon, the best intendant who ever served New France.
An excellent start was made when, in 1665, Jean Talon was sent out to Canada as Intendant.
Talon trusted him and made him Quarter-Master-General.
Then the eagle made one more swoop down upon the vessel, and, with the one talon it had left, it dragged the Sampo over the side of the ship so that it fell to the bottom of the ocean and was broken to pieces.
But Lemminkainen raised his sword, and no sooner had the eagle grasped the Sampo than he brought down his sword with such force that every talon was cut off but one.
But the tremendous speed of the stoop in game-hawking often carries the stooper so fast up to her quarry, and onwards after it is struck, that the talon will not hold.
Nor is there anything mysterious or unnatural in this, for, the wider the area which the hawk's foot can cover, the better chance she obviously has of catching hold with one talon or the other of the quarry at which she strikes.
I think I am right in saying that when a hawk strikes and does not hold a rook, it is almost always either accidentally or because her talon has not held fast.
Hawks, while pluming their quarry, keep a firm hold of it with the inner talon of one foot, and often of both.
But it is easy to contrive that the outer talons of one foot shall get hold of the pigeon, and afterwards to shift the inner talon on to it.
Talon made a motion that the Parliament should depute some members to carry the petition to the Queen, and to beseech her Majesty to take it into her consideration.
On the feast of Saint Martin, the First President and the Attorney-General Talon exhorted the Parliament to be peaceable, that the enemies of the State might have no advantage.
The person also who has lost the trick does the same; and so on, until all the cards in the talon are exhausted.
He whetted a lean and crooked forefinger like a talon on the edge of the docket book, turned the page and called the last case, being the case of Patrolman James J.
Such at least was the venue until about 1684, when the old brewery which Talon had built in Lower Town on the bank of the river St. Charles was transformed into a Palais de Justice.
Talon speedily apprised Colbert of the situation, and the most comely inmates of the refuge hospitals of Paris and Lyons were summoned to fill this void.
The Intendant Talon too well knew the temper of the King to play with this fire so like to kindle his wrath.
Talon became the royal instrument of a system which had its beginning and end in the maintenance of kingly authority.
Before sailing for France, Talon recommended Joliet as a suitable agent for the discovery of the Mississippi, and the governor accepted his counsel.
Talon writes to the King that "Saint-Lusson's expedition will cost nothing, as he has received beaver enough from the Indians to pay him.
If Talon had remained in the colony, Frontenac would infallibly have quarrelled with him; but he was too clear-sighted not to approve his plans for the discovery and occupation of the interior.
The intendant Talon announces, in his despatches of this year that he had sent La Salle southward and westward to explore.
Talon was resolved to find the Mississippi, the most interesting object of search, and seemingly the most attainable, in the wild and vague domain which he had just claimed for the King.
Talon had sent him to discover and explore the copper-mines of Lake Superior.
Talon looked about him for a fit agent of the enterprise, and made choice of Louis Joliet, who had returned from Lake Superior.
Talon sent him, with one Pere, to explore the copper-mines of Lake Superior; and it was on his return from this expedition that he met La Salle and the Sulpitians near the head of Lake Ontario.
Both the governor Courcelle and the intendant Talon were readily won over to his plan; for which, however, they seem to have given him no more substantial aid than that of the governor's letters patent authorizing the enterprise.
Talon and Frontenac came into personal contact only during a few weeks, but the colony over which Frontenac ruled as governor had been created largely by the intelligence and toil of Talon as intendant.
This Talon saw with perfect clearness, and he clamoured for immigrants till Colbert declared that he would not depopulate France to people Canada.
Awaiting Frontenac at Quebec were Courcelles, the late governor, andTalon the intendant.
Courcelles had proved a stalwart warrior against the Iroquois, while Talon possessed an unrivalled knowledge of Canada's wants and possibilities.
For sixteen years Laval had been a great person in Canada, and Duchesneau had come to occupy the post which Talon had made almost more important than that of governor.
This was the arrival, by the same ship, of the bishop Laval, who had been absent from Canada four years, and Jacques Duchesneau, who after a long interval had been appointed to succeedTalon as intendant.
Talon showed his high appreciation of Saint-Lusson's services by immediately giving him another mission--this time to Acadia, for the purpose of finding and reporting as to the best road to that colony.
Talon whom the king sends back to settle everything according to His Majesty's views.
The council begged Talon to take the necessary steps for the construction and equipment of one or more breweries.
Nevertheless, on that point as on the other, Colbert contrived to meet Talon half-way.
Perhaps these last words show that Talon even then intended to come back to Canada if such should be the wish of the king and his minister.
Peace reigns within as well as without the colony,' wrote Talon at the end of the year 1671.
But the part of Jean Talon in the common task, though apparently less brilliant, was to be in many respects the most important, and his influence the most far-reaching in the destinies of the colony.
Above each of his bushy red eyebrows I saw an eagle's talon tattooed in blue, while another scarlet tattoo mark, representing the undulations of a serpent, spanned his forehead.
Yes, my brother carries an eagle's talon over each eye-brow, and the red serpent on a head-band over his forehead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
