1694.1 THE QUARREL SPREADS. 331 



Chevalier cle Callieres. 1 It is said that the accusa- 

 tion was groundless, and the character of the 

 woman wholly irreproachable. The Kecollets 

 submitted for two months to the bishop's inter- 

 dict, then refused to obey longer, and opened 

 their church again. 



Quebec, Three Rivers, Sorel, and Montreal had 

 all been ruffled by the breeze of these dissensions, 

 and the farthest outposts of the wilderness were 

 not too remote to feel it. La Motte-Cadillac had 

 been sent to replace Louvigny in the command of 

 Michillimackinac, where he had scarcely arrived, 

 when trouble fell upon him. " Poor Monsieur de 

 la Motte-Cadillac," says Frontenac, " would have 

 sent you a journal to show you the persecutions 

 he has suffered at the post where I placed him, and 

 where he does wonders, having great influence 

 over the Indians, who both love and fear him, but 

 he has had no time to copy it. Means have been 

 found to excite against him three or four officers 

 of the posts dependent on his, who have put upon 

 him such strange and unheard of affronts, that I 

 was obliged to send them to prison when they came 

 down to the colony. A certain Father Carheil, the 

 Jesuit who wrote me such insolent letters a few 



l " ]\jr l'Evesque accuse publiquement le Rev. Pere Joseph, superieur 

 des Recollets de Montreal, d'etre l'entremetteur d'une galanterie entre 

 sa soeur et le Gouverneur. Cependant M r . l'Evesque sait certainement 

 que le Pere Joseph est l'un des meilleurs et des plus saints religieux de 

 son ordre. Ce qu'il allegue du pre'tendu commerce entre le Gouverneur 

 et la Dame de la Naudiere (soeur du Pere Joseph) est entierement faux, et 

 il l'a publie avec scandale, sans preuve et contre toute apparence, la ditte 

 Dame ayant toujours eu une conduite irreprochable." Me'moire touchant 

 le De'mesle, etc. Champigny also says that the bishop has brought this 

 charge, and that Callieres declares that he has told a falsehood. Cham- 

 pigny au Ministre, 27 Oct., 1694. 



