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  Alexandre de Prouville -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (1603-1670) was an aristocrat (A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs) statesman and military leader born in (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy seized all the Mohawk lands in the name of the king of France, and forced the Mohawks to accept the Roman Cathoilic faith and to adopt the French language as taught by the (A member of the Jesuit order) Jesuit missionaries.
Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy died at his (A large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack) castle in France in 1670.
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 Alexandre de Prouville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (1603-1670) was an aristocrat statesman and military leader born in France.
In 1664, the Marquis de Tracy was appointed viceroy of New France.
Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy seized all the Mohawk lands in the name of the king of France, and forced the Mohawks to accept the Roman Cathoilic faith and to adopt the French language as taught by the Jesuit missionaries.
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Thou, Nicolas de - Bishop of Chartres, uncle of the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou.
Tournon, Charles-Thomas Maillard de - Papal legate to India and China, cardinal, born of a noble Savoyard family at Turin, 21 December, 1668; died in confinement at Macao, 8 June, 1710.
Tracy, Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de - Viceroy of New France, born in France, 1603, of noble parents; died there in 1670.
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In 1643 was born Jean-Jacquet de Gerlaisse, son of Ferdinand de Gerlaisse, Seigneur des Hameteaux and Dorothee Cona.
De Tracy arrived in New France in one of the smaller accompanying ships because the winds in the St. Lawrence had not been favourable to navigate the larger ships.
Jean-Jacquet de Gerlaisse, 'dit St. Amant', weekend soldier, farmer extraordinary, faithful husband and loving father of Jean-Francois de Gerlaise, who is the only son to continue his lineage, and does so in such a positive and brave fashion, is a trubute to our ancestry.
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 NEW FRANCE 1664 - 1669
Alexandre de Proville, Marquis de Tracy, d-1670, is temporary Governor of New France.
The new Governor is (I)-Daniel de Remy, Sieur de Courcelle (1665-1672/98).
Intendant (I)-Jean Talon (1625-1694), Viceroy de Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy, d-1670, and Governor Sieur de Courcelle (1665-1672) came to agreement with the Jesuit Bishop, Father (I)- Francois Xavier de Laval Montmorency, (1623-1708) that church tithe shall be 1/26 on grains only and payable to the parish priest.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
PROUVILLE DE TRACY, ALEXANDRE DE, Marquis (or Chevalier), seigneur of Tracy-le-Val and Tracy-le-Mont (Picardy), king’s counsellor, commissary general of the French army in Germany, commander-in-chief of the troops, lieutenant-general of America, commandant of Dunkirk, then of the Château Trompette at Bordeaux; b.
Preceded by his 24 guards, all dressed in His Majesty’s colours, and by four pages, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, the Chevalier de Chaumont*, and followed by six lackeys and several officers in sumptuous dress, the king’s representative proceeded from the port to the church amidst the acclamations of the crowd.
Mother Marie de l’Incarnation went further, saying that he “won over everyone by his good works and by the great examples of virtue and religion which he has given the whole country.” Indeed, his charity was admirable.
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In 1800 de Sable sold his property, and the Pelletier family probably moved to Peoria, where in 1807 Pelletier signed by mark a petition about his alleged land claim at Peoria.
The grove defines the early French appellation of the portage, Portage des Chênes (Portage of the Oaks) that Jacques Bellin noted between the north branch of the "Checago" river and the Des Plaines on his 1755 map.
The following is from de Liette’s memoirs, describing his Chicago portaging experience c.1688, and the particular difficulties caused by the shallowness of much of the Des Plaines River.
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Marquis de Tracy is appointed governor and Jean Talon is appointed intendant of Canada, then with a population of 3,000 European civilians and 1,300 French officers and troops.
Des Groseillers and his relative Pierre-Esprit Radisson, after suffering unfair treatment by Governor Jean de Lauson, participate in funding the English-financed Hudson`s Bay Company, beginning a series of events leading to the British conquest of 1763.
De La Barre is silent partner of trading ventures with the Iroquois and even encouraged them to attack other French traders; this duplicity is the final detail which prompts his removal from office; Denonville replaces him.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
She was indeed a daughter of the first half of the 17th century: a period of chivalry and of good sense, a period in which speculation and action meet in a harmonious synthesis.
Henri de Bernières, his vicar general and superior of the monastery, did everything for her that one may expect from a pastor of souls, and our Society manifested all the proofs of respect and affection which were due to her merit.
Marie de l’Incarnation, who was at the time an Ursuline nun in the convent at Tours, wrote this memoir at the request of Father de La Haye, rector of the Collège at Orléans.
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 Notes for Marguerite L'AMIRAULT, L'ADMIRAULT
The Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy was named Lieutenant-General of North and South America by the King and was determined to end the Iroquois threat once and for all.
She was born about 1645 on the Rue des Poulies in the parish of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris.
Honoré Martel was the son of Jean Martel, horse merchant, living on Rue des Ursulines in Paris and of the late Marie Duchene.
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Alexandre de Prouville Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (1603-1670) was an aristocrat stateman and military leader born in France.
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 NYNY 1665-1669
600 troops, lead by New France's new governor Daniel de Rémy de Courcelles and lieutenant-general Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy, head into New York to attack the Mohawks.
Military governor of New France Alexandre de Prouville, the Marquis de Tracy, leading a force of 1000 regulars, 600 militia and 100 Algonkians and Hurons, torches New York Mohawk villages, including Andarague, after making peace with the Seneca and Oneida.
De Courcelles and de Tracy's expedition limps back from New York, having reached as far as Schenectady, but accomplishing little.
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 NEW FRANCE 1664 - 1669
Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) arrived in New France and is granted a signatory at Lachine by the Sulpicians.
An ancestor of the Garneau clan, (I)-Robert Germain, was born in 1639, married 1669 Fort Quebec, New France Marie Coignart (Courtier) born 1643.
Monsieur de Courcelle (1665-1672) is ordered to organize the male subjects by appointing Captains, Lieutenants and ensigns so that every two or three years, 1,200 well-armed soldiers can be lead into the lands of the Iroquois and also into other Indian nations to maintain them in their obedience and duties to New France.
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 Machault DArnouville Jean Baptiste De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Having incurred the enmity of Mme de Pompadour, he was dismissed (1757) by Louis XV.
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 Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 16: a machine-readable transcription.
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On the second of September, then, after clearing this Sault [de Sainte-Marie],—which is not a waterfall, but merely a very swift current impeded by numerous rocks,—we entered Lake Superior, which will henceforth bear Monsieur de Tracy's name, in recognition of indebtedness to him on the part of the people of those regions.
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 timeline of quebec history 1663 to 1759
1666 - During the autumn, the soldier of Carignan-Salières, led by Alexandre de Prouville, the "Marquis de Tracy" and the governor, invade the Iroquois territory to the south, burn their villages and destroy their crops.
1698 - Louis-Hector de Callière is made governor of New France after the death of Frontenac in in November.
1703 - Philippe Rigaud de Vaudreuil, governor of Montreal, is made governor of New France when de Callière dies in Montreal.
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De Tracy was a veteran of many European campaigns and had attained the rank of Lieutenant General in the King's armies.
At 60 years old, De Tracy, who brought the first horses to New France, led a second attack on the Mohawks.
De Tracy and his army returned to the Saint Lawrence Valley in early November unscathed.
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 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Samuel de Champlain was employed in the interests of successive fur-trading monopolies and sailed into the St. Lawrence in 1603.
In addition to creating a royal colony, the King sent a military commander, Alexandre de Prouville, the marquis de Tracy, and a regiment of soldiers who in 1666 defeated the Iroquois and forced them to make peace.
In 1671 Simon François d'Aumont (or Daumont, sieur de St. Lusson) at Sault Ste.
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 The Virtual Museum of New-France: Charles Albanel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The two of them spent the winter of 1650 at the Tadoussac mission, of which de Quen was then in charge.
In 1660 he was in the company of Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers when they returned from a trading expedition to Lake Superior with three hundred Amerindians and sixty canoes piled high with furs.
It is known that on the tenth of November, 1670, Jean Talon expressed his anxiety at the presence of "two English vessels overturned quite close to Hudson Bay" and the role that might have been played in their being there by "a certain Desgroseliers previously resident in Canada".
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