contract to construct the Royal Battery and the Island Battery. They asked Bégon*, intendant of New France, to encourage bidders from
Bégon* de La Picardière, Charles Le Moyne* de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil, and Louis-Joseph Rocbert de
Bégon* endorsed this initiative, when Charon went to France to obtain royal approval. In the spring of 1718, provided with his letters patent, Charon returned to Canada with six schoolmasters. The
Rigaud de Vaudreuil and Bégon* declared themselves ready to support to the utmost Collet’s “good intentions.” Despite
Bégon, proposed him to the minister of Marine as worthy of consideration for a seat on the Conseil Supérieur. This proposal was refused on the ground of possible conflict of interest between
, pp.15–124. Bégon, “Correspondance” (Bonnault), ANQ Rapport, 1934–35. Édits ord. (1854–56), II, 404. La Rue, “Lettres et mémoires,” ANQ Rapport, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38
“Relation”, Intendant Bégon* asked to see him in order to obtain information concerning western exploration
, L3, pp.4017–19. American archives (Clarke and Force), 4th ser., II, 518–19. Amherst, Journal (Webster). Bégon, “Correspondance” (Bonnault), ANQ Rapport, 1934–35, 163
responsibility for this development lay with Hocquart’s predecessors, Michel Bégon* de La Picardière and Dupuy, for they had failed to
(copies at PAC). Bégon, “Correspondance” (Bonnault), ANQ Rapport, 1934–35, 160. Coll. des manuscrits de Lévis (Casgrain), VIII, 169, 180; IX, 94. Docs. relating to
Bégon*, who had held the intendancy since 1712.
In 1723 the latter had indeed asked the king to replace him in the post of intendant of Canada
Bégon* not yet arrived and the affairs of the intendancy entrusted to Clairambault
Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil and Michel Bégon* were to be more explicit: “The favour that the king has granted to the
summer of 1727 by news that the English were fortifying Oswego with a garrison, sent Claude-Michel Bégon
of 1701 with the Iroquois and some 30 other First Nations, which restored peace to the west. Michel Bégon* wrote of it
complied in the case of Île aux Tourtres but until the day of his death obstructed the efforts of the intendant, Michel Bégon*, who
Normant’s successor, Honoré Michel* de Villebois de La Rouvillière, who had married into the powerful Bégon family