1694.] SAINT- VALLIER AND CALLIERES. 329 



Even Champigny was startled when lie refused 

 the sacraments to all but four or five of the mili- 

 tary officers for alleged tampering with the pay of 

 their soldiers, a matter wholly within the province 

 of the temporal authorities. 1 During a recess of 

 the council, he set out on a pastoral tour, and, 

 arriving at Three Rivers, excommunicated an 

 officer named Desjordis for a reputed intrigue with 

 the wife of another officer. He next repaired to 

 Sorel, and, being there on a Sunday, was tolcl that 

 two officers had neglected to go to mass. He 

 wrote to Frontenac, complaining of the offence. 

 Frontenac sent for the culprits, and rebuked them ; 

 but retracted his words when they proved by sev- 

 eral witnesses that they had been duly present at 

 the rite. 2 The bishop then went up to Montreal, 

 and discord went with him. 



Except Frontenac alone, Callieres, the local 

 governor, was the man in all Canada to whom the 

 country owed most ; but, like his chief, he was a 

 friend of the Eecollets, and this did not commend 

 •him to the bishop. The friars were about to re- 

 ceive two novices into their order, and they invited 

 the bishop to officiate at the ceremony. Callieres 

 was also present, kneeling at a prie-dieu, or prayer- 

 desk, near the middle of the church. Saint-Yallier, 

 having just said mass, was seating himself in his 

 arm-chair, close to the altar, when he saw Callieres 



i Champigny an Ministre, 24 Oct., 1694. Trouble on this matter had 

 begun some time before. Me'moire du Roy pour Frontenac et Champiyny, 

 1694 ; Le Ministre a I'Eveque, 8 Mai, 1694. 



2 La M of te- Cadillac a , 28 Sept., 1694; Champigny au Ministre, 



27 Oct., 1694. 



