Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in entry verrazzano-giovanni-da of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...ntinued along the Maine coast and as far as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, which fishermen from Brittany had found twenty years before (the name of Cape Breton is a trace of them), thence returning to France .
He reached Dieppe early in July, and it is from Dieppe, July 8, 1524, that his letter to the King is dated.
It is the earliest description known to exist of the shores of the United States.
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| † | France (France) | 17,744 | 2,462 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| France (Idaho, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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