152 QUEBEC AND ITS TENANTS. [1636. 



" the Carmelites are all on fire, the Ursulmes full 

 of zeal, the sisters of the Visitation have no words 

 to speak their ardor " ; ^ how some person unknown, 

 but blessed of Heaven, means to found a school 

 for Huron children; how the Duchesse d'Aiguillon 

 has sent out six workmen to build a hospital for 

 the Indians ; how, in every house of the Jesuits, 

 young priests turn eager eyes towards Canada ; and 

 how, on the voyage thither, the devils raised a 

 tempest, endeavoring, in vain fury, to drown the 

 invaders of their American domain.^ 



Great was Le Jeune's delight at the exalted 

 rank of some of those who gave their patronage 

 to the mission ; and again and again his satisfac- 

 tion flows from his pen in mysterious allusions to 

 these eminent persons.^ In his eyes, the vicious 

 imbecile who sat on the throne of France was the 

 anointed champion of the Faith, and the cruel and 

 ambitious priest who ruled king and nation alike 

 was the chosen instrument of Heaven. Church 

 and State, linked ui alliance close and potential, 

 played faithfully into each other's hands; and that 

 enthusiasm, in which the Jesuit saw the direct 

 inspkation of God, was fostered by all the prestige 



1 Le Jeune, Relation, 1636, 6. Compare " Divers Sentimens," ap- 

 pended to the Relation of 1635. 



2 " L'Enfer enrageant de nous veoir aller en la Nouuelle France pour 

 conuertir les infidelles et diminuer sa puissance, par depit il sousleuoit 

 tous les Elemens contre nous, et vouloit abysmer la flotte." — Divers Sen- 

 timens. 



^ Among his correspondents was the young Due d'Enghien, after- -^ 

 wards the Great Conde, at this time fifteen years old. "Dieu soit loiie ! 

 tout le ciel de nostre chere Patrie nous promet de fauorables influences, 

 iusques a ce nouuel astre, qui commence a paroistre parmy ceux de la 

 premiere grandeur." — Le Jeune, Relation, 163G, 3, 4. 



