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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Could you lay your hand on the witnesses of his former arrest?" "Give me two summonses of witnesses and I will find you some to-day." "Coquart," said the lawyer, as he took off his gloves, and placed his hat and stick in a corner, "fill up two summonses by monsieur's directions." He looked at himself in the glass over the chimney shelf, where stood, in the place of a clock, a basin and jug.
Jacques Collin heard, and quaked with terror, for he knew how vile an expression his face would assume. "If you have not strength enough to take your wig off yourself Yes, Coquart, remove it," said Camusot to his clerk. Jacques Collin bent his head to the clerk with admirable resignation; but then his head, bereft of that adornment, was hideous to behold in its natural aspect.
"A magistrate can make no promises. Coquart, tell the usher and the gendarmes to take the prisoner back to the Conciergerie. I will give orders that you are to have a private room," he added pleasantly, with a slight nod to the convict.
At this moment Coquart came in to tell Monsieur Camusot that the public prosecutor expected him.
Coquart gives an estimate of the farming operations at Malbaie which is of special interest as showing that, if the old régime in Canada did not produce good results, it was not for lack of criticism. Better cattle should be raised, he says; at Malbaie one does not see oxen as fine as those at Beaupré, near Quebec, or on the south shore.
The formalities attending Madame Poiret's examination were over in a few minutes; Coquart read aloud to her the notes he had made of the little scene, and she signed the paper; but the prisoner refused to sign, alleging his ignorance of the forms of French law. "That is enough for to-day," said Monsieur Camusot. "You must be wanting food. I will have you taken back to the Conciergerie." "Alas!
The judge kept a meditative eye on the prisoner when the usher and the gendarmes again took him in charge. Then, with a start like a waking man, he tossed Esther's letter across to the table where his clerk sat, saying: "Coquart, copy that letter."
He tells exactly what the Malbaie farm can produce in a year; the record for the year of grace 1750 is "4 or 6 oxen; 25 sheep, 2 or 3 cows, 1200 pounds of pork, 1400 to 1500 pounds of butter, one barrel of lard," certainly not much to help a paternal government. The salmon fishery should be developed, says Coquart. Now the farmers get their own supply and nothing more.
As to the final trial, if we should restore the examining jury, it would have to be the function of the superior courts without the aid of a jury. "And now," said Camusot, after a pause, "what is your name? Attention, Monsieur Coquart!" said he to the clerk. "Lucien Chardon de Rubempre." "And you were born ?" "At Angouleme." And Lucien named the day, month, and year. "You inherited no fortune?"
But by a stroke of Providence, Monsieur Coquart, missionary to the French, arrived, and I desired the commandant to give me leave to retire which he granted together with a passport permitting me to remain at the priests' house in my mission where I am now." I am indebted to Placide P. Gaudet for the above extract.
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