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male or female, is entitled to the title and distinction of a 

 baron of the kingdom of France. I had some doubts if it was 

 so. but submitted the case to a very eminent lawyer, at Paris, 

 who assures me that there can be no dispute on the subject. 



" There was another barony erected in Canada, in 1671, in 

 favor of M. Talon, the Intendant of the Province : it was 

 called (1) i La terre des Islets,' which I believe is at this time 

 owned by some religious community. However, I have pointed 

 out above the title which, under a monarchy, this family has 

 to distinction in Canada. 



" The cession of Canada by France to England made no 

 change in the legal right to hold honors, and a title to honors 

 is as much a legal right as a title to an estate. 



" No person by the cession was deprived of anjr legal 

 right. At Malta, the old titles of honor are respected, and 

 the Queen recognises them in the commissions issued in her 

 name in Malta. Whatever right French noblemen had in 

 Canada under the French government continues at this time : 

 in this instance the honor is greater than most titled Euro- 

 pean families can boast of. 



" It is not, however, as a family matter I regard it. I wish 

 you to remark that it was a Canadian who discovered the 

 Mississippi from the sea, (La Salle having failed in this though 

 he reached the sea, sailing down the Mississippi), and also 

 that the first and most celebrated Governor General of Loui- 

 siana was a French Canadian." 



Here ends M. Falconer's ably written paper. The 

 Le Moyne- originally descended from the Count of 

 Salagne, en Bi&caye, who enlisted on the side of 

 Charles VII, in 1428. This count married Marguerite 

 de la Tremouille, daughter of the Count des Guines, and 

 Grand Chambellan de France, one of the oldest fami- 

 lies of the Kingdom. We must now leave to our readers 

 to decide, and we are willing also to accept for the 

 house of Longueuil (2) the motto — 



" Sur cette terre encor sauvage 

 Les vieux titres sont inconnus ; 

 La noblesse est dans le courage, 

 Dans les talents, dans les vertus." 



(1) Chateau Bigot stands within its limits. 



(2) The Baron de Longueuil w r as succeeded by his son 

 Charles, born 10th December, 1656. He served quite young 



