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Updated: June 27, 2025
Be valiant and true!" said the old nobleman solemnly, and then with a sudden change of tone: "What in the name of the devil has your daughter got there?" A girl had advanced from the crowd with a large strip of bark in front of her on which was heaped a pile of dead fish. "It is your eleventh fish which I am bound by my oath to render to you," said the censitaire.
The whole system of neighbourhood government, as the late Abbe Casgrain once pointed out, was based upon the authority of two men, the cure and the seigneur, 'who walked side by side and extended mutual help to each other. The censitaire, who was at the same time parishioner, had his two rallying-points the church and the manor-house.
The road, unfenced and bordered with grass on each side of the track, was smooth and well kept, as became the Grande Chaussee of the Barony of Tilly. It ran sometimes through stretches of cultivated fields green pastures or corn-lands ripening for the sickle of the censitaire.
Unlike his prototype, the censitaire of Old France, the habitant never became dispirited; even when things went wrong he retained his bonhomie.
It was during one of these fair summer days at Tilly that Sieur Tranchelot, having acquired the farm of the Bocage, a strip of land a furlong wide and a league in depth, with a pleasant frontage on the broad St. Lawrence, the new censitaire came as in duty bound to render foi et hommage for the same to the lady of the Manor of Tilly, according to the law and custom of the Seigniory.
"If I could swim now as I did thirty years ago, I should be by his side." Du Lhut glanced round him and shook his head. "We are only six now," said he. "I fear they are up to some devilry because they are so very still." "They are leaving the house!" cried the censitaire, who was peeping through one of the side windows. "What can it mean? Holy Virgin, is it possible that we are saved?
He could hear many loud voices, however, in the crowd, and caught up the chief topics they discussed with each other. His eyes rested several times on a wiry, jerking little fellow, whom he recognized as Jean La Marche, the fiddler, a censitaire of the manor of Tilly. He was a well-known character, and had drawn a large circle of the crowd around himself.
This is why he spurned the name 'censitaire. As Charlevoix puts it, 'he breathed from his birth the air of liberty, and showed it in the way he carried his head. A singular type, when all is said, and worthy of more study than it has received. Church and State had a common aim in early Canada.
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