s in North America_ and _Old Regime_.

=La Perouse, Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de= (1741-1788). French
admiral. =D= Explores North-West Coast in 1788, 25. =Bib.=: _Voyage
autour du Monde_; Marcel, _Vie de La Perouse_.

=La Perriere.= =WM= Commanded to evacuate Johnstone's redoubt, 140.

=La Place, Jacques de.= =Ch= Jesuit missionary at Miscou, 234.

=La Potherie.= _See_ Bacqueville.

=Laprairie.= On south shore of St. Lawrence, above Montreal. =Index=:
=F= Attack on, by war party under John Schuyler, 281; serious encounter
at, between Canadian forces and party under Peter Schuyler, 312.

=La Rabeyre, De.= =L= French officer, put to death by Iroquois, 227.

=La Ralde, Raymond de.= =Ch= Accompanies De Caen to Quebec, 138; returns
to France, 141; appointed admiral of Company's fleet, 154.

=La Riborde, Gabriel de.= Recollet missionary; arrived from France in
1670, and sent to Cataraqui as chaplain to the garrison. Was in the West
with La Salle and Hennepin, in 1679-1680. =Index=: =L= With Tonti and
Membre at Fort Crevecoeur, 149; murdered by the Illinois, 150. =Bib.=:
Parkman, _La Salle_.

=La Rochebeaucour, De.= =WM= Second aide-de-camp to Montcalm, 2; forms
cavalry corps, 87; commands Bougainville's cavalry, 222; brings
provisions into Quebec, 232.

=La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc de=
(1747-1827). Chiefly remembered because of his valuable and entertaining
_Travels_, "full of keen, fair-minded observation regarding every
variety of detail of life in America as this exiled French nobleman
found it, told in a readable style, not without an occasional touch of
humour." Exiled from France in 1768; returned, for several years, and
went into retirement until after Waterloo. Made a peer of France at the
Restoration. =Index=: =Dr= Not allowed to visit Lower Canada, 290. =S=
Visitor to Upper Canada, 56; his observations, 71, 73, 74; describes
opening of Legislature, 92, 93; high opinion of Simcoe's secretary, 178;
describes Colonel Smith's house, 179; on scarcity of servants, 182;
entertained by Simcoe at Navy Hall, 187, 230; on Simcoe's household,
187; Simcoe objects to some of his remarks, 188; on Simcoe's military
talent, 225. =Bib.=: Works: _Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'Amerique fait
en 1795-97_; _Etat des Pauvres en Angleterre_; _Le Bonheur du Peuple_.

=La Rochelle.= French seaport, on the Atlantic, long a stronghold of the
Huguenots. =Index=: =Ch= Merchants of, contraband trader