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

, Meneval accused him of seeking to incite the garrison, the inhabitants, and the Indians to disobedience and to contempt not only of the governor’s authority, but of that of the clergy as well. On this

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

a convent in Champlain for the sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame. For a while he considered returning to France, but the shortage of clergy in the colony encouraged him to remain. He died in

[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

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

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 proceed forthwith

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

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

, 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 Abbé Boullard had

 – 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

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

to the general assembly of the French clergy “that he had an abbé who was willing to accept this post [the bishopric], and to go and make the sacrifice of his wealth and his person among the Indians

certain supervision over the clergy, the religious communities, and education. For his part, the intendant was responsible for all the civil administration

, encouraged by the French clergy, who were assembled for the Estates General, immediately appointed four religious: Denis Jamet

main causes of conflict between the clergy and previous governors was again removed. To provide funds for the colony’s administration Mézy auctioned off the right to collect the 25 per cent export

forth. Escorted by his clergy, Bishop Laval* received the saviour of the colony at the entrance to the nave; he offered him holy water and led

the return of M. de Maisonneuve, who had set out for France again in 1655. He was to return only at the end of July 1657, together with the first parish clergy for Ville-Marie, which would

. The governor concerned himself with internal administration, and had a list of land grants prepared which he sent to the minister by the courier of 1682. He supported the clergy in its attempts to

treatment of the Roman Catholic clergy captured at Quebec. He was in Quebec in 1631 and again in 1632 when the post was restored to the French and may have been there throughout the occupation