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Updated: May 23, 2025
"The thanksgiving hymn which re-echoed under the vaults of the holy temple found an echo in all hearts," we read in another account; "and the least happy was not that of the worthy prelate who thus inaugurated his long and laborious episcopal career." The virtue of Mgr. de Laval lacked the supreme consecration of misfortune.
Gaspard de Laval was a figure conspicuous enough even in that city of motley. For one thing he was well over two yards high, and, though somewhat lean for perfect proportions, his long arms and deep chest told of no common strength. He looked more than his thirty years, for his face was burned the colour of teak by hot suns, and a scar just under the hair wrinkled a broad low forehead.
Having in view these ulterior motives, the acrimony of Frontenac's quarrel with Laval is not surprising. Rightly or wrongly, the governor held that the bishop was subservient to the Jesuits, while Colbert's plain instructions required the governor to keep the Jesuits in check. From such a starting-point the further developments were almost automatic.
We read in the London papers about this Prince of Wales, Monsieur de Laval, and I do not think that he comes very well out of the comparison. I thought of the long record of Brighton scandals, London scandals, Newmarket scandals, and I had to leave George undefended. 'As I understand it, said I, 'it is not the Emperor's private life, but his public ambition, that the English attack.
She wrote on the subject to M. Bornieres, arch-deacon of Quebec, who represented M. de Laval in his absence, this prelate being still in France.
In fact, misunderstandings like that which had occurred on the arrival of de Queylus were no longer to be feared; since the authority to which Laval could lay claim had been duly established and proved, the Sulpicians had submitted and accepted his jurisdiction.
In Canada the return of the revered Mgr. de Laval was impatiently expected, and the governor, M. de Denonville, himself wrote that "in the present state of public affairs it was necessary that the former bishop should return, in order to influence men's minds, over which he had a great ascendency by reason of his character and his reputation for sanctity."
"You ain't going to go no such thing!" he cried, coming in and slamming the door behind him. "That's a that's a fake letter." "Yes, I know. It doesn't make any difference. But tell me, Billy, is it father or Jude down at the Laval place?" Billy was stricken with surprise. "How d' yer know?" he gasped. "Oh! it was all so foolish!" she answered smiling feebly. "If he if Mr.
At noon they arrived at Rennes, where the excursionists lunched, and some of them, perhaps at the expense of the inner man, were enterprising enough to see a little of the city, which contains forty thousand inhabitants, and was the ancient capital of the dukedom of Brittany. "This is Laval," said the doctor, an hour and a half after the train left Rennes.
What was the disposition of the beleaguering force? Was any project of relief on foot amongst the Dauphin's soldiers? Did they understand how much depended upon the rescue of the devoted town? Guy de Laval was able to answer these questions, for he had himself ridden from Chinon to Orleans with messages to the Generals in the beleaguered city.
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