CHAPTEK XV. 



1636-1642. 

 VILLEMARIE DE MONTREAL. 



DAUVERSliiRE AND THE VoiCE FROM HeAVEN, — AbBE OlIER. — 



Their Schemes. — The Society of Notre-Damb de Mont- 

 real. — Maisonneuve. — Devout Ladies. — Mademoiselle 

 Mance. — Marguerite Bourgeois. — The Montrealists at 

 Quebec. — Jealousy. — Quarrels. — Romance and Devotion. 

 — Embarkation. — Foundation of Montreal. 



We come now to an enterprise as singular in its 

 character as it proved important in its results. 



At La Fleche, in Anjou, dwelt one Jerome le 

 Hoyer de la Dauversiere, receiver of taxes. His 

 portrait shows us a round, bourgeois face, some- 

 what heavy perhaps, decorated with a slight mous- 

 tache, and redeemed by bright and earnest eyes. 

 On his head he wears a black skull-cap ; and 

 over his ample shoulders spreads a stiff white 

 collar, of wide expanse and studious plainness. 

 Though he belonged to the noblesse, his look is 

 that of a grave burgher, of good renown and sage 

 deportment. Dauversiere was, however, an enthu- 

 siastic devotee, of mystical tendencies, who whip- 

 ped himself with a scourge of small chains till his 

 shoulders were one wound, wore a belt with more 



[1881 



