17,2Fille du Roi
Marie Dubois, daughter of the late Guillaume and of Isabelle LaSoeur, was a twenty-eight year old orphan, protected by the Sun King. Her native town was Lisieux, famous today for its pilgrimage to Sainte-Thérése de l’Enfant—]ésus, and formerly for its cathedral built in the twelfth century. The coastal river, Ia Touques, passes through Lisieux before emptying into Ia Manche (the English Channel).
Marie Dubois, after her arrival in Quebec in the summer of 1670, met Etienne Revellos who proposed marriage. On 26 August, notary Romain Becquet signed their marriage contract. According to Silvio Dumas, Marie brought property valued at three hundred livres and a gift from the king worth fifty. Suddenly, lover Etienne disappeared like a bird of passage, whereupon Marie went to Montreal. On 3 November, she was "in the chamber of Monsieur de Chambly" seeking approval her marriage contract under a private agreement to Michel Brouillet dit Laviolette. A missionary from Chambly blessed their union, but the document itself has been lost.
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12Soldat Carignan, Compagnie de Petit.
De Saint-Médard de Gouex en Vienne, France, fils de Jacques Brouillet et de Renée Vezein (Vaitziene). 1ère mention au Québec en 1665 comme soldat, Cie de Petit, régiment Carignan-Salières. Décès ou inhumation le 18-05-1712 à Montréal. Après son service militaire, il devient meunier et farinier
1251. Brouillet dit Laviolette, Michel, né le 3 mai 1645 à Gouex (Saint-Médard), Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, fils de Jacques et de Renée Vassière. Arrivé le 19-06- 1665 sur Le Vieux Siméon. Soldat de la compagnie de Petit au régiment de Carignan-Salières, marié à Chambly le 00-11-1670, contrat SSP du 03-11-1670, avec Marie-Louise Dubois, fille du roi, née vers 1652 à Lisieux, Calvados. Décédé le 18-05-1712 à Montréal, 67 ans, 6 enfants. Ménage établi à Chambly. Meunier. (FO, no 320008) (DGFQ, p. 177) (CS, pp. 248-249)
Michel served in the Company of Captain Louis Petit. We know eight of his companions who must have been among the fifty other soldiers in the unit. Petit and his men arrived in Canada with the second contingent of
the Carignan Regiment; they debarked at Quebec from the ship Saint-Sebastien on 12 September 1665. The fate of a Company Commander is often bound to that of his soldiers. Petit and his men were chosen to spend the winter at Fort Saint—Louis, which was under the command of
Jacques de Chambly. In February, Governor de Courcelles decided to attack the Mohawks in their own territory. The advance was made over a distance of sixty miles, resulting in the destruction of a Mohawk village not far from the Dutch. Forty well-armed Iroquois came out of the woods to send five or six French soldiers and a Lieutenant to Heaven, and wounded two captains, including Louis Petit. We can assume that Michel Brouillet was in the action but emerged safe and sound.
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