If this statement is true, it must mean that Roberval sailed home again at the close of 1541, without having succeeded in finding Cartier, and that he prepared for a renewed expedition in the spring of the coming year.

But the evidence for any such voyage is not conclusive.
What we know is that on April 16, 1542, Roberval sailed out of the port of Rochelle with three tall ships and a company of two hundred persons, men and women, and that with him were divers gentlemen of quality.

On June 8, 1542, his ships entered the harbour of St John's in Newfoundland.

They found there seventeen fishing vessels, clear proof that by this time the cod fisheries of the Newfoundland Banks were well known.

They were, indeed, visited by the French, the Portuguese, and other nations.