The Queen Mother also wrote: "Monsieur de Poutrincourt, now that the good Jesuit Fathers are about to try, under the authority of the King, my son, to establish our faith over there, I hereby request you to give them, for the success of this good work, all the courtesy and assistance in your power, as a service very near our heart, and very acceptable to us, praying God, Monsieur de Poutrincourt, to keep you under his holy and watchful care."--David Asseline's _Antiquities and Chronicles of the City of Dieppe_ (Dieppe, 1874; 2 vols.) The letters are reproduced in Faillon's _Col. Fr._, vol. i., p. 102. 33. (p. 135)--Antoinette de Pons, Marquise de Guercheville, patroness of Jesuit missions in New France, was lady of honor to Marie de Médicis, and accounted one of the most beautiful and zealously religions women of her time. Taking up the defence of the Jesuits against Poutrincourt, she not only bought the ship in which to transport them to America, but the cargo and the royal patent of De Monts, thus succeeding the latter as proprietor of all Acadia, excepting Port Royal, which still remained in Poutrincourt's possession. Concerning her rupture with De Monts, see Shea's _Charlevoix_, vol. i., p. 274. She resolved to plant a strictly Catholic colony at Pentagoet (site of Bangor, Me.), and sent out, under La Saussaye, some fifty settlers and three Jesuit missionaries (1613). Upon reaching Port Royal, they were joined by Biard and Massé, and thence proceeded to the eastern side of Mount Desert Island. For the location of their mission, St. Sauveur, see Parkman's _Pioneers_, p. 304, _note_. The descent of the English under Argall (1613), was the end of Madame de Guercheville's mission. See _N. Y. Colonial Documents_, vol. iii., pp. 1, 2, concerning reparation allowed her by the government of Great Britain for the loss of her vessel. Cf. Faillon's _Col. Fr._, vol. i., pp. 110-117; and Baird's _Hug. Emig._, vol. i., p. 103. Upon the queen regent's high regard for the Jesuits, see _Col. Fr._, vol. i., pp. 101, 102. 34. (p. 141)--Several of the old French coins were called écus. They date from the period of Charles VII.,--_écus à la couronne_, or crowns of gold, from the crown which formed the type of the reverse.--Prime's _Coins, Medals, and Seals_, p. 150. The écu of Louis XIV. is first given in Dye's _Coin Encyclopedia_, p. 621; value in United States currency, $1.10S. The early écu was equal to three francs; later, to about five.