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It may safely be set down as a fabrication to blacken the memory of the governor, and exhibit the bishop and his adherents as victims of persecution. "Mr. l'Evesque accuse publiquement le Rev. Pere Joseph, superieur des Recollets de Montreal, d'etre l'entremetteur d'une galanterie entre sa soeur et le Gouverneur.
Count v. Quite as curious, and with a less tragic history is La Roche Gageac on the Dordogne, below Sarlat. "Ma chere patrie," wrote the old chronicler, Jean Tarde, "une petite ville bien close et tres forte dependant de la temporalite de l'evesque de Sarlet, la quelle ne fut jamais prinse par les Anglais."
Le Ministre a l'Evesque de Quebec, 16 Avril, 1695.
Cependant Mr. l'Evesque sait certainement que le Pere Joseph est l'un des meilleurs et des plus saints religieux de son ordre. Memoire touchant le Demesle, etc. Champigny also says that the bishop has brought this charge, and that Callieres declares that he has told a falsehood. Champigny au Ministre, 27 Oct., 1694.
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