the Roman Catholic clergy, such as Father Gaulin, and by complete failure to achieve the progress he so

 – with his character and his position he had many – to accuse him of being too much influenced by the clergy, when there was a conflict between secular and clerical authoritet the evidence indicates

dismissed and, despite a request by all the clergy of the colony in 1707, the civil authorities decided to authorize only the tithe on grain. In 1701

stern Calvinist background in which his parents had been raised left its mark. All his life, Jacques-René was very devout and a staunch supporter of the clergy

Quebec. He had been chosen “as the person most apt for maintaining concord between the religious and the clergy” but was to become, probably very much

, contrary to the bishop’s last will and testament, he decided to advance the date of the funeral. Without warning anybody, either among the clergy or the congregation of Quebec, he ordered Lotbinière to

grounds that his convent was exceedingly poor. In point of fact, in a memorandum of 14 June 1704 addressed to the governor and the intendant, the king deemed it proper that “those of the secular clergy

[La Croix], during the night of the 26 Dec. 1727, gave rise to an extremely violent conflict between the upper clergy on the one hand, and Intendant Dupuy and the two members of the

considered returning to France, but the shortage of clergy in the colony encouraged him to remain. He died in Quebec in 1707. Geoffroy’s life in North America

to be instructed by the Jesuits. It was Father Germain who organized two congregations dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the college, one for the clergy and the other for the students. He never

governor’s authority, but of that of the clergy as well. On this latter point, Meneval reported that de Goutin and his friends “degrade [the] lives and characters [of the clergy] to the great contempt of

Cambrai; d. 1735 at Versailles. Father Guesdron first entered the secular clergy, and it was after he had received the subdiaconate that he asked to

Claude-Thomas Dupuy in his dispute with the clergy. Jean-François died in Quebec in May 1733. He was survived by his wife, Catherine

reversed; then came clergy and 6 war chiefs bearing the flower-covered coffin on which lay a plumed hat, a sword, and a gorget. Behind the train

[Lom d’Arce]. To evangelize the Indians and to keep the French within the bounds of Christianity, however, the clergy in Canada was not

[La Croix] episcopacy and he went so far as to state that the bishop should resign because of the divisions he caused among both clergy and laity. Death overtook Jacques de Lamberville

assembly of the clergy of France, Abbé Queylus was not received favourably by the Jesuits. They, declining an invitation from the queen mother, Anne of Austria, to have one of their members appointed to the

: to transfer to the secular clergy a parish which the king, with the previous agreement of the bishop, had entrusted to the Recollets of Brittany. So it came about: on a fine November Sunday when nobody

the young Acadians of these settlements who were attracted by their free life and the hope of plunder. The activities of the privateers were opposed by the clergy who felt that they had a bad influence

, and the clergy in general, de Meulles appears to have been on good terms from the outset; certainly they voiced no complaints on his conduct of affairs. With La Barre too his relations were at