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tells how the good pastor put forth a manclement so 

 energetic, on the 18th April, 1759, that Montcalm took 

 exception to its terms and reproached the Bishop for 

 having unsparingly condemned " the indecent masque- 

 rades " of the preceding winter, and for asserting that 

 " a house of prostitution was-established near the 

 ramparts of Quebec." 



Was the Intendant here aimed at '{ 



If the lives of the leaders were not pure, what could 

 have been that of the French troupiers ? Female virtue, 

 love of country, disinterestedness, true manliness, 

 were evidently relegated to a back seat in this steeple- 

 chase of riot, robbery and wantonness. True, there was 

 yet in the colony a party — not a very numerous, nor 

 strong one, — le parti des honnetes gens ; de Vaudreuil, 

 de Lery, Tache, La Corne, de Beaujeu, de Longueuil, 

 and some other men of note belonged to it. 



Even de Bougainville, who is credited with making 

 several pretty speeches — Bougainville, the learned 

 Fellow of a London society of savants — Bougainville, 

 the mathematician, destined later on to immortalise 

 his name as a navigator, was nothing but a reckless 

 gambler " un des plus for 'c6n6s joueurs." (1) "Though 

 he affected to be a rigorist," says the Abbe, " his daily 

 life resembled that of his friend, dissolute but brave 

 Bigot. 



We are reminded to be brief. 



Abbe Casgrain's work (2) completes some data, pro- 

 bably left out intentionally by Frs. Parkman, as to 

 Montcalm's too great intimacy with certain facinating 

 ladies, in Parloir St., Quebec. In a letter the general 

 wrote to Bourlamaque, whom he had left in Quebec, (3) 

 he says : " I am glad you sometimes speak of me to 



(1) " Guerre clu Canada," vol. II., pp. 13 and 14. 



(2) " Guerre du Canada," pp. 337 and 338. 



(3) Parkman's " Montcalm and Wolfe," vol. I., pp. 452-5. 



