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personage, Father Felix DeBerry, had more than once 

 dined and wined His Boyal Highness, Prince Edward, 

 the father of our Gracious Sovereign, when stationed 

 in our garrison in 1791-4, with his regiment the 7th 

 Fusileers. 



The Kecollet Church was also a sacred and last 

 resting place for the illustrious dead. Of the six French 

 Governors who expired at Quebec, four slept within its 

 silent vaults, until the translation, in 1796, of their 

 ashes to the vaults of the Basilica, viz : (1) Frontenac, 

 (2) deCallieres, (3) Yaudreuil, (4) de la Jonquiere. 

 Governor de Mesy had been buried in the Hotel-Dieu 

 Chapel, and the first Governor, de Champlain, 'tis 

 generally believed, was interred near the Chateau Saint 

 Louis, in a " sepulcre particulier," near the spot now 

 surmounted by his bust, benath the soil, on which, in 

 1871, was erected the new Post Office. 



In these days of " mining furor " one would like to 

 accompany the Professor, in the explorations he made, 



The following inscription was on the coffin-plate : 



(1) Count Frontenac — " Cy gyt le Haut et Puissant Sei- 

 gneur, Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, Gouverneur- 

 General de la Nouvelle-France. Mort a Quebec, le 28 novem- 

 bre 1698."— {Hist, of Canada, Smith Vol I., p. 133.) 



(2) Gov. de Callieres Cy gyst Haut et Puissant Seigneur, 



Hector de Callieres, Chevalier de Saint-Louis, Gouverneur et 

 Lieutenant-General de la Nouvelle-France, decede le 26 mai 

 1703."— Ibid., p. 148.) 



(3) Gov. de Vaudreuil Cy gyst Haut et Puissant Seigneur, 



Messire Philippe Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, Grand 

 Croix de FOrdre Militaire de Saint-Louis, Gouverneur et 

 Lieutenant-General de toute la Nouvelle-France, decede le 

 dixieme octobre \1 2b. "—(Ibid., p. 190.) 



(4) M. de la Jonquiere — " Cy repose le corps de Messire 

 Jacques-Pierre de Taffanell, Marquis de la Jonquiere, Baron 

 de Castelnau, Seigneur de Hardarsmagnas et autres lieux, 

 Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis, 

 Chef d'Escadre des Armees Navales, Gouverneur et Lieute- 

 nant-General pour le Roy en toute la Nouvelle-France, terres 

 et passes de la Louisiane. Decede a Quebec, le 17 mai 1752, a 

 six heures et demie du soir, age de 67 ans." — (Ibid., p. 222.) 



