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France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In CanadaParkman, Francis

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France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In Canada

Name: France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In Canada
Author: Parkman, Francis

Parkman, Francis

Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)

*  When the fugitive Hurons reached Montreal, they were
     unwilling to confess their desertion of the French, and
     declared that they and some others of their people, to the
     number of fourteen, had stood by them to the last. This was
     the story told by one of them to the Jesuit Chaumonot, and
     by him communicated in a letter to his friends at Quebec The
     substance of this letter is given by Marie de l’Incarnation,
     in her letter to her son of June 25, 1660. The Jesuit
     Relation of this year gives another long account of the
     affair, also derived from the Huron deserters, who this time
     only pretended that ten of their number remained with the
     French. They afterwards admitted that all had deserted but
     Annaliotaha, as appears from the account drawn up by Dollier
     de Casson, in his Histoire du Montréal. Another
     contemporary, Belmont, who heard the story from an Iroquois,
     makes the same statement. All these writers, though two of
     them were not friendly to Montreal, agree that Daulac and
     his followers saved Canada from a disastrous invasion. The
     governor, Argenson, in a letter written on the fourth of
     July following, and in his Mémoire sur le sujet de la guerre
     des Iroquois, expresses the same conviction. Before me is an
     extract, copied from the Petit Registre de la Cure de
     Montréal, giving the names and ages of Daulac’s men. The
     Abbé Faillon took extraordinary pains to collect all the
     evidence touching this affair. See his Histoire de la
     Colonie Française, II. chap. xv. Charlevoix, very little to
     his credit, passes it over in silence, not being partial to
     Montreal.

To the colony it proved a salvation. The Iroquois had had fighting
enough. If seventeen Frenchmen, four Algonquins, and one Huron, behind
a picket fence, could hold seven hundred warriors at bay so long, what
might they expect from many such, fighting behind walls of stone? For
that year they thought no more of capturing Quebec and Montreal, but
went home dejected and amazed, to howl over their losses, and nurse
their dashed courage for a day of vengeance.




CHAPTER IV. 1657-1668. THE DISPUTED BISHOPRIC.


_Domestic Strife.--Jesuit and Sulpitian.--Abbé Queylus.--Francois de
Laval.--The Zealots of Caen.--Gallican and Ultramontane.--The Rival
Claimants.--Storm at Quebec--Laval Triumphant._

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France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In CanadaParkman, Francis

History

France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In Canada

Parkman, Francis

Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)

*  When the fugitive Hurons reached Montreal, they were
     unwilling to confess their desertion of the French, and
     declared that they and some others of their people, to the
     number of fourteen, had stood by them to the last. This was
     the story told by one of them to the Jesuit Chaumonot, and
     by him communicated in a letter to his friends at Quebec The
     substance of this letter is given by Marie de l’Incarnation,
     in her letter to her son of June 25, 1660. The Jesuit
     Relation of this year gives another long account of the
     affair, also derived from the Huron deserters, who this time
     only pretended that ten of their number remained with the
     French. They afterwards admitted that all had deserted but
     Annaliotaha, as appears from the account drawn up by Dollier
     de Casson, in his Histoire du Montréal. Another
     contemporary, Belmont, who heard the story from an Iroquois,
     makes the same statement. All these writers, though two of
     them were not friendly to Montreal, agree that Daulac and
     his followers saved Canada from a disastrous invasion. The
     governor, Argenson, in a letter written on the fourth of
     July following, and in his Mémoire sur le sujet de la guerre
     des Iroquois, expresses the same conviction. Before me is an
     extract, copied from the Petit Registre de la Cure de
     Montréal, giving the names and ages of Daulac’s men. The
     Abbé Faillon took extraordinary pains to collect all the
     evidence touching this affair. See his Histoire de la
     Colonie Française, II. chap. xv. Charlevoix, very little to
     his credit, passes it over in silence, not being partial to
     Montreal.

To the colony it proved a salvation. The Iroquois had had fighting
enough. If seventeen Frenchmen, four Algonquins, and one Huron, behind
a picket fence, could hold seven hundred warriors at bay so long, what
might they expect from many such, fighting behind walls of stone? For
that year they thought no more of capturing Quebec and Montreal, but
went home dejected and amazed, to howl over their losses, and nurse
their dashed courage for a day of vengeance.




CHAPTER IV. 1657-1668. THE DISPUTED BISHOPRIC.


_Domestic Strife.--Jesuit and Sulpitian.--Abbé Queylus.--Francois de
Laval.--The Zealots of Caen.--Gallican and Ultramontane.--The Rival
Claimants.--Storm at Quebec--Laval Triumphant._

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France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In Canada

France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In Canada

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