think of the conversion of the savages, and that it was _his desire_
that the Jesuits should be employed in this work. Charlevoix
acknowledges that De Poutrincourt was "un fort honnete homme, et
sincerement attache a la religion Catholique"--nevertheless, his
prejudices against Jesuits were so strong, that "il etoit bien resolu de
ne les point mene au Port Royal." On various pretexts he evaded obeying
the royal commands, and when, the year after, the Jesuits were sent out
to him, at the expense of Madame de Gruercheville, and by the orders of
the queen's mother, he rendered their stay at Port Royal as
uncomfortable as was consistent with his noble and generous character,
vigilantly guarding against their acquiring any dangerous influence. His
former prejudices could not have been lessened by the assassination of
Henry IV.[107] The two Jesuits selected by P. Cotton, Henry IV.'s
confessor, for missionary labors in Acadia, were P. Pierre Biast and P.
Enemond Masse. They were taken prisoners at the time of Argall's descent
on Acadia, 1614, and conveyed to England.--Charlevoix, tom. i., p. 189,
216.]

[Footnote 106: By Barriere in 1593; by Jean Chatel in 1594. He finally
perished by the hand of Ravaillac, in 1610. See Sully's Memoirs, b. vi.,
vii.; Cayet, Chron. Noven., b.v.; Pere de Chalons, tom. iii., p. 245,
quoted by Sully.]

[Footnote 107: Henri s' etait montre bienveillant pour les Jesuites,
encore que les parlemens et tous ceux qui tenoient, a la magistrature
ressentoient plus de prevention contre ces religieux que les Hugonots
eux-memes.... Henri IV. fit abattre la pyramide qui avait ete elevee en
memoire de l' attentat de Jean Chatel contre lui, parce que l'
inscription qu' elle portait inculpait les Jesuites d'avoir excite a cet
assassinat.--Sismondi: _Histoire des Francais_. See De Thou, tom. ix.,
p. 696, 704; tom. x., p. 26 a 30.]

[Footnote 108: When Champlain first laid the foundations of the fort in
1623, to which he gave the name of St. Louis, it is evident that he was
actuated by views, not of a political, but a commercial character. When
Montmagny rebuilt the fort in 1635, it covered about four acres of
ground, and formed nearly a parallelogram. Of these works only a few
vestiges remain, except the eastern wall, which is kept in solid
repair.--Bonchette.]

[Footnote 109: Charlevoix, tom. i., p. 247.]

[Footnote 110: "Ce fut Guillaume de Caen qui les conduisit (les
Jesuites) a Quebec. Il avoit donne s