The Chevalier de Montmagny: First Governor of New France

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Notes Introduction 1. L. Moreri, Le Grand Dictionnaire historique ou le Melange de I'histoire sacree el profane, 10vols (Paris, 1756). The first edition, in one volume, dates from 1674, and was published in Lyon; that of 1725, in six volumes, comes from Paris. Thework was also published inAmsterdam (1694,1698,1702, and 1740), and in Basel (1731 and 1733). In fact, it went through nineteen editions in French and one in Spanish (Paris, 1753). 2. It is found in the Cabinet des Titres of the BnF (Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris): DB (Dossiers bleus) 362,and Cabinet d'Hozier193. See, in the various notes to Chapter 1, critical remarks concerning this documentation. 3. J.-E. Roy, "M. de Montmagny," Nouvelle-France 5 (1906), "Son administration," 1:105-21,161-73, "Soncaractere," 2:417-28, 520-30. 4. J.P.B. Julien, known as the Chevalier de Courcelles, Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse de France (Paris, 1820-1822). 5. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (hereafter DCB) devotes rather a short article to Montmagny (three and a half columns compared to twenty-five columns for Champlain). In it is a resume of material contained inJ.-E. Roy's work and in G. Lanctot's Histoire du Canada.Without a search in the archives mentioned later in this Introduction, it was not possible for the author to correct the current errors regarding the dates of his birth and death, for example, or his occupation upon his return to Paris in 1648. 6. J. Rouillard, ed., Guide d'histoire du Quebec du regimefranqais a nos jours: Bibliographie commentee (Montreal:Ed. du Meridien, 1991), 39. 7. H. Mechoulan, ed., L'Etat baroque, 1610-1652 (Paris:Vrin, 1985). Chapter 1 1. Moreri, Le Grand dictionnaire. See Introduction n. 1. 296 NOTES TOPAGES 3-8 2. J.X.Carre de Busserolle, Dictionnaire geographique, historique et biographique d'Indre-et-Loire, 3 vols (Tours, 1878), the word "Huaudiere" (la): farm, commune of Azay-le-Rideau. 3. F.A.Aubert de la Chesnaye-Desbois, Dictionnaire de la noblesse, 3rd ed., 19 vols (Paris, 1863-1876), Villiers de I'Isle-Adam entry. 4. See this chapter, n. 14. 5. La Chesnaye-Desbois, Dictionnaire, Huault entry; de Courcelles, Dictionnaire universel. A recent work, though in general very seriously written, has taken it up. See A. Lapeyre and R. Scheurer, Les notaires et secretaires du roi sous les regnes de Louis XI, Charles VIII et Louis XII (14611515 ) (Paris: BN, 1978), 2: plate 56. 6. See J.C.Dube, Les intendants de la Nouvelle-France (Montreal: Fides 1984), 14 ff. 7. AOM, Arch 2926, document reproduced in BN, Carres d'Hozier, fols. 136-7. 8. 1464-1534, elected in 1521. 9. See Carre de Busserolle, Dictionnaire geographique. 10. Lapeyre and Scheurer, Les notaires et secretaires du roi,vol. 1, entry 63, Philippe de Billon. 11. Unfortunately, the documents containing the details of the inquiry preceding the entry of Francois and Jean into the Order have not been found, either in Paris or in Valetta. 12. AOM, Arch. 3566. 13. BN, DB, 362, fols. 2-3. 14. See BN, Cabinet d'Hozier, 189, fol. 3: in the margin of the passage where this contract is reproduced, someone has written: "this act is a fake." 15. AN, MC, 6, 32; this is also found transcribed in the insinuations of the Chatelet of Paris, AN, Y, 106, fol.59. 16. Note that this gift was not the first transaction that Louis and his cousin had enacted jointly; see AN, MC, VI, 15,29 January 1544, for an exchange between the two. 17. The goldsmiths were part of the six corps, the richest and most influential corporations in the city of Paris during the ancien regime. 18. Note that in the two documents cited in this chapter, n. 15, the notarial document and his insinuation at the Chatelet of Paris, Louis is designated in the first as "ecuyer," while in the second his name is preceded by "noble homme maistre." In both cases, the title attributed to Etienne Victor is "Honorable homme." 19. AN, MC, VI, 15, 27 June 1545. Marechal, according to P. Richelet, Dictionnairefranqois(Geneva, 1700) was "an artisan who makes wheel rims, coulters, and ploughshares, who shoes horses and is their doctor." Again, NOTES TOPAGES 8-10 297 note an interesting document in which was found the following: "Etienne Victor, goldsmith: a lease to him of a forge on the...