Le philosophe et la morue. Histoire philosophique et politique de la pêche et du commerce de la morue de la Terre-Neuve

• Published in: Dix-huitième Siècle
• Main Author: Jacques Gury
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France 2001
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://www.persee.fr/doc/dhs_0070-6760_2001_num_33_1_2400; https://doi.org/10.3406/dhs.2001.2400

Cod fishing off of Newfoundland played a vital role in the economies of France and Britain, the rival nations of the 18th Century. Thousands of men and whole communities depended on fishing and exporting salt and dried cod from the Newfoundland fisheries to Southern Europe, the Near East and the West Indies. In the age of Enlightenment, Encyclopédistes and Philosophes contrasted cod fishing — a lonely venture in northern climates, simultaneously virtuous and profitable — to the corrupt enterprises of settlers in the tropics the real treasures of the New World were the bounties of the sea. As L'Histoire des deux Indes claimed, a ship loaded with dried cod was as full of gold as a Spanish galleon. Gury Jacques. Le philosophe et la morue. Histoire philosophique et politique de la pêche et du commerce de la morue de la Terre-Neuve. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°33, 2001. L'Atlantique, sous la direction de Marcel Dorigny . pp. 81-100.