USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both in nominal and legal terms, all French territorial claims in North America belonged to the French king. French monarchs did not impose feudal land tenure on New France, and the king’s actual attachment to these lands was virtually non-existent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some also went to France. After the Seven Years’ War (which included the French and Indian War in America), France ceded the rest of New France to Great Britain and Spain in the Treaty of Paris of 1763 (except the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon).

Detailed explanation-3: -Land ownership in the French feudal system Under the ancien regime ‘ownership’ of most of the French rural land was ultimately held from the king by a feudal title. Only a small amount of rural land was considered allodial and fell outside of this system.

Detailed explanation-4: -King Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert gave New France a government similar to that of a French province. In New France-unlike France-there were no powerful local leaders to compete with the royal administration. On paper, New France was a model of absolutist rule.