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Its Church or Chapel was, in September, 1796, des- 

 troyed by fire ; two eye-witnesses of the conflagration, 

 Philippe Aubert DeGaspe' and Deputy Commissary- 

 General James Thompson, the first, in his Mtfmoires, 

 the second, in his unpublished Diary, have vividly 

 portrayed the accident. The Church faced the Eing and 

 the old Chateau ; it formed part of the Eecollet Convent, 

 " a vast quadrangular building, with a court and a well 

 stocked orchard " on Garden street ; it was occasionally 

 used as a state prison. The Huguenot and agitator, 

 Pierre I hiCalvet, spent some dreary days in its cells in 

 1779-83; and during the summer of 1776, a young 

 volunteer under Benedict Arnold, John Joseph Henry, 

 (who lived to become a distinguished Pennsylvania 

 Judge) was immured in this monastery, after his arrest 

 by the British, at the unsuccessful attack in the Lower 

 Town, in Sault-au-Matelot street, on 31st December, 

 1775, as he graphically relates in his Memoirs. It was 

 a monastery of the order of Saint-Francis. The Provin- 

 cial, in 1793, a well known, witty, jovial and eccentric 



removed after the conflagration of the 7th June, 1755, which 

 destroyed their hospital. 



4° Mere Marie Marthe Desroches de Saint-Francois-Xavier, 

 a young woman of 28 years, who succombed to small pox on 

 the 16th August, 1755. 



5° Mere de l'Eni'ant-Jesus, who expired on the 12th May, 

 1756. 



6° Mere de Sainte-Monique, who died in July, 1756, the 

 victim of her devotion in ministering to the decimated crew 

 of the ship Ltopard, sunk in the port by order of Government, 

 to arrest the spread of the pestilential disease which had 

 raged on the passage out. Mr. Faucher closes his able report 

 with a suggestion that a monument ought to be raised, to 

 commemorate the labors and devotion of the Jesuits, on the 

 denuded area on which stood their venerable College. 



Relation de ce qui Jest passe* lors des Fouilles faites par 

 ordre du Gouvernement dans une partie des fondations du 

 College des Jesuites de Quebec, pr6c6d6e de ceriaines observa- 

 tions par Faucher de Saint-Maurige. Quebec. C. Darveau 

 —1879. 



