took care to renew the oath of fealty and homage to his new seigneur, but he did not himself make any land grants. Finally, on 2 April 1743, he made his land over to Pierre-Antoine de La

his apprenticeship there as a naval officer, fighting against the Turks and the pirates from Algiers and Tripoli. In 1632 he was one of the directors of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France

. Bonnault, “Le Canada militaire,” 517–18. A.-A. Cambray, Robert Giffard, premier seigneur de Beauport et les origines de la Nouvelle-France (Cap-de-la-Madeleine, 1932). Archange Godbout

CHARTIER DE LOTBINIÈRE, EUSTACHE, seigneur, councillor of the Conseil Supérieur

. Historians of the 19th and 20th centuries have suggested 1567, 1570, and 1580 as the years of his birth. In Les voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr de

CAVELIER DE LA SALLE, RENÉ-ROBERT, explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi

LE MOYNE DE LONGUEUIL, PAUL-JOSEPH, known as the Chevalier de Longueuil, seigneur

des messieurs de Saint-Sulpice, seigneurs de Montréal, Antoine Roy, édit. (Québec, 1943), 42–43. “Procès-verbaux sur la commodité et incommodité dressés dans chacune des paroisses de la

RÉMY DE COURCELLE (Courcelles), DANIEL DE, Sieur de Montigny, de La Fresnaye et de Courcelle

Rouer* d’Artigny some land on Chemin Saint-Jean. He sometimes assumed the title of Seigneur de La Fortière. Nicolas

to reduce naval debts [see Alexandre-Robert Hillaire de La Rochette

Hertel* de La Fresnière, René-Ovide Hertel de Rouville did not win renown through the noble feats of arms that glorified the Hertel name. Quite early in life he turned to the study of law, taking

intendant, François de Beauharnois* de La Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville, and was highly regarded in the ministry of

). “Edmund-William-Romer Antrobus,” BRH, 12 (1906): 78–80. “La famille Antrobus,” BRH, 41 (1935): 506–8. P.-G. Roy, “Les grands voyers de la Nouvelle-France et leurs successeurs

PROUVILLE DE TRACY, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis (or Chevalier), seigneur of Tracy-le-Val and Tracy-le-Mont (Picardy), king’s counsellor

M. Guyotte [parish priest of Notre-Dame] and M. de la Colombière [Joseph de La

France. Among his most remarkable history paintings are Premier monastère des ursulines de Québec, Souvenirs des jésuites de la Nouvelle-France, Le martyre des pères Brébeuf et Lalemant, and

Tombelles and councillor of Laon, and of his second wife, Rose de La Salle, Jacques Marquette descended from two distinguished families of warriors and officials, his father’s being one of the most

notable member of the La Porte family. By 1596 a Bochart was a councillor of state and had acquired the fief of Champigny. Then, in 1624, Jean Bochart, Seigneur de Champigny, de Noroy et de

–95. F.-J. Audet et Fabre Surveyer, Les députés au premier Parl. du Bas-Canada, 65. J.-B. Gareau, “La Prévôté de Québec, ses officiers, ses registres,” ANQ Rapport