Samuel de Champlain

== Early life ==

== Early life ==

[[File:Samuel-de-champlain-s.jpg|thumb|right|Inauthentic depiction of Champlain, by [[Théophile Hamel]] (1870), after the one by Ducornet, based on a portrait of [[Michel Particelli d'Emery]] by Balthasar Moncornet. No authentic portrait of Champlain is known to exist.<ref>[[#Bishop1948|Bishop (1948)]], pp 6–7</ref>]]

[[File:Samuel-de-champlain-s.jpg|thumb|right|Inauthentic depiction of Champlain, by [[Théophile Hamel]] (1870), after the one by Ducornet, based on a portrait of [[Michel Particelli d'Émery]] by Balthasar Moncornet. No authentic portrait of Champlain is known to exist.<ref>[[#Bishop1948|Bishop (1948)]], pp 6–7</ref>]]

=== Birth and family origins ===

=== Birth and family origins ===