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1811, on his way home, after dining at Ste. Foye with 

 one Mr. Eitchie, from an attack of indigestion, having 

 fallen from his horse, near the very spot where he had 

 been wounded, at the battle of Ste Foye, fifty-one years 

 previous, where he was found early next morning 

 insensible. 



CASTLE ST. LOUIS REMINISCENCES. 



IV 



In the previous chapter, mention was made of the 

 light cast on the social life of the representative of 

 royalty, at the Chdteau St. Louis, and of the enter- 

 tainments afforded the guests admitted within its aris- 

 tocratic circles. 



Judged from modern standard, vice-regal hospitality 

 seems to have been neither plenteous, nor magnificent ; 

 not even when proud old Count de Frontenac was 

 lording it in the heyday of his splendor, on the histo- 

 ric old rock. Of the gluttonous repasts — festins a 

 manger tout, of those unsatiable cormorants, the native 

 Indians, we have most circumstantial records ; not so, 

 of the entertainments of the early representatives of the 

 Grand Monarque, in the citadel of French power, in 

 America. 



Tis a pity no court journal should have existed to 

 tell all about the ton, as well, as of the order of prece- 

 dence at the Governor's mahagony. 



I can recall, when in 1880, was mooted the question 



of what might have been, two centuries ago, at official 



dinners in the Castle St. Louis, the social status of the 



most illustrious colonist of the period, Charles LeMoyne, 



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