Biard’s Relation is often overlooked among the various reports that constitute The Jesuit Relations of New France. To be fair, it is truly a unique text. For one thing, it was published in Lyon by Louis Muguet whereas almost all of the other Relations were published in Paris by Cramoisy. Furthermore, its date of composition (1616) precedes that of the widely known Jesuit Relations corpus published annually from 1632 to 1673. Moreover, in contrast to the other Relations, which were printed extensions of the letter circulating among Jesuits throughout the world for informative, administrative and propaganda purposes, Biard’s text is not a letter. An analysis of the figure of the reader in Biard’s and in Lejeune’s Relations enables us to consider the differences as well as the similarities between the two texts: difference in the nature of the professed connection with the reader (addressee or “amy lecteur” [“reader-friend”], the conventional designation); similarity in the construction of a spiteful reader figure whose origins may be found in the anti-pamphleteer nature of Biard’s Relation.