Abstract
Ti /I Y analysis of Peter Moogk's book covers three points, the first two '' /I quite specific and the last more general. Some aspects of the nine I V I chapters that Moogk devotes to New France itself are dealt with first. There follows a critique of the work's last chapter, entitled Apples Do Not Fall Far from the Tree, in which Moogk attempts to show that not a few characteristics of French Canadian (and more precisely quebecois ) society in the year 2000 can be explained by values inherited from New France. The last section of the article addresses the question posed in its title, concerning the direction of Moogk's reconstructive enterprise. In the end, is the author casting light on the present, thanks to his study of the past? Or is he doing the opposite, reading the past through the filter of his particular view of the present? It is hoped that these comments will encourage historians to be more careful when they generalize about the settlers of New France.
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