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Copy of the Epitaph prepared by the, Academy of Inscrip- 

 tions at Paais, for the Marquis of Montcalm's tomb ; leave 

 was asked by the French Government to have the marble 

 tablet, on which it was inscribed, sent out to Quebec, and 

 granted by the English Government. ('Vide, William Pitt's. 

 Letter, 10t7i April, 1761.) This inscription, for some cause or 

 other, never reached Quebec. 



EPITAPH. 



Hie jacet, 



Utroque in orbe asternurn victurus, 



LUDOVICUS JOSEPHUS DE MONTCALM GOZQN, 



Marchio Sancti Verani, Baro Gabriaci, 



Ordinis Sancti Ludovici Commendator. 



Legatus-Generalis Exercituum Gallicorum ; 



Egregius et Civis et Miles, 



Nullius rei appetens preeterquarn verse laudis, 



Ingenio felici, et literis exculto ; 



Omnes Militiee gradus per continua decora emensus, 



Omnium Belli xirtium, temporum, discriminum gnarus, 



In Italia, in Bohemia, in Germania 



Dux industrius. 



Mandata sibi ita semper gerens ut majoribus par haberetur, 



Jam clarus periculis 



Ad tutandam Canadensem Provinciam missus, 



Parva militum manu Hostium copias non semel repulit, 



Propugnacula cepit viris armisque instructissima. 



Algoris, mediae, vigiliarum, laboris patiens, 



Suis unice prospiciens, immemor sui, 



Hostis acer, victor mansuetus. 



Fortunam virtute, virium inopiam peritia et celeritate compensavit ; 



Imminens Colonise fatum et concilio et manu per quadriennium sustinuitj 



Tandem ingentem Exercitum Duce strenuo et audaci, 



Classemque omni bellorum mole gravem, 



Multiplici prudentia diu ludificatus, 



Vi pertractus ad dimicanduru, 



In prima acie, in primo conflictu vulneratus, 



Religioni quam semper coluerat innitens, 



Magno suorum desiderio, nee sine hostium moerere. 



Extinctus est 



Die xiv. Sept., a. d. mdcclix, aetat. xlviii. 



Mortales optiini ducis exuvias in excavata humo, 



Quam globus bellicus decidens dissiliensque defoderat, 



Galli lugentes deposuerunt, 



Et generosas hostium fidei commendarunt. 



The Annual Register for 1762. 



