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Champ-Doré

French explorer

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Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ138241575 ↗
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Pierre Angibault (or Angibaut), known as Champ-Doré or Champdoré, was a ship's captain in the marine of New France. He was a member of the settlement in Acadia from 1604 to 1607, and he took part in all the voyages of exploration. He made a voyage to the coast of Maine in 1608.

Lescarbot praised him in a sonnet, insisting upon his skill as a captain:

Quand ta dextérité empêche d’abîmer

La nef qui va sous toi du Ponant à l’Aurore ...

See also

Champdoré

Samuel de Champlain

References and notes

Bibliography

B. F. De Costa: The voyage of Pierre Angibaut, known as Champdoré, captain in the marine of New France, made to the coast of Maine, 1608. J. Munsell's Sons D. Clapp and Son, printers, 1891

Léon Guérin: Les navigateurs français: Histoire des navigations, découvertes et colonisations françaises. Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Paris 1847

Champlain, Works (H. P. Biggar), I, 363 et n., 378–87, 458, et passim.

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