Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In New France, there were three rulers for every colony: governor, a bishop and an intendant. The intendant, with the influence of the bishop and governor, managed areas in the colony such as law and order, income and so on. The first intendant of New France was Jean Talon, appointed in 1665 when the colony became a royal province of France. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.