. Marie-Josephte de Lafontaine de Belcour being the great-granddaughter of François Byssot* de La Rivière, Cugnet was drawn

predecessor François de Beauharnois* de La Chaussaye had done, from his family ties with the minister. Pontchartrain

, 74–85. J.-E. Roy, “Les conseillers au Conseil souverain de la Nouvelle-France,” BRH, I (1895), 180, 183. P.-G. Roy, “Le sieur Guillaume Estèbe,” BRH, LII (1946), 195

SABREVOIS DE BLEURY, CLÉMENT DE, seigneur and merchant; baptized 16 July

CHARTIER DE LOTBINIÈRE, RENÉ-LOUIS, esquire, seigneur, deputy attorney general

SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE, priest, Sulpician, missionary; b. 1641 at the Château de Fénelon in Périgord

MARSOLET DE SAINT-AIGNAN, NICOLAS, interpreter, clerk in the fur trade, ship’s master, trader, and seigneur; baptized 7 Feb. 1601

after the Petite messe pour la nativité de Notre-Seigneur . . . by the French composer Stéphane-Louis Nicou-Choron, which was made up of Christmas songs. Perrault’s work integrates some

, chevalier and seigneur, and Louise d’Alès de Corbet; m. 1 Dec. 1668 Catherine Courtin in Paris; buried 24 Sept. 1710 in the chapel crypt at his family castle at Denonville

RAMEZAY, CLAUDE DE, esquire, lieutenant and captain in the colonial regular troops, commander of the troops, seigneur, knight of the

CASAVANT, JOSEPH, organ builder; b. 23 Jan. 1807 in the parish of La Présentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge (La Présentation

Montreal, René de Couagne, always came to some agreement with interested parties – seigneurs, parish priests

d’Avène Des Méloizes, cher, seigneur de Neuville, au Canada, du 8 mai 1759 au 21 novembre de la même année . . . ,” ANQ Rapport, 1928–29, 76

Canada en la Nouvelle-France.” He died the same year, at the beginning of autumn. By his marriage with Marie-Charlotte Damours de Chauffours he had only

(Berthierville), 18 Sept. 1798; Greffe de Barthélemy Faribault, 10 Sept. 1771, 13 Sept. 1774, 26 June 1777, 19 Sept., 12 Oct. 1778, 21 March 1786. Archives de la Soc. historique

not considered healthy enough for heavy work on the land, and was early guided towards study. When the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière was opened on 1 Oct. 1829, he took up the

frequently Lahontan; the name also appears as Lahontang, La Hontan and La Hontaa), seigneur of Esleix, in Canada from 1683 (?) to 1693, officer in

. “Recensement de Québec, 1744,” 33. Quebec Gazette, 14 May 1767. P.-V. Charland, “Notre-Dame de Québec: le nécrologe de la crypte,” BRH, XX, 249–50. J.-E. Roy, Rapport

DUCHESNEAU DE LA DOUSSINIÈRE ET D’AMBAULT, JACQUES, intendant of New France (1675–82), chevalier, councillor to His Majesty, a

, including a Lettre héroïque à la duchesse de Longueville sur le retour de M. le prince, and was also a founding member of the academy of Caen in 1652. He died at Cherbourg in 1662. In