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Françoise-Marie JACQUELIN was born abt. 1602 in France
Françoise-Marie JACQUELIN was the child of ? and ?Françoise-Marie was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1640.
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Françoise-Marie married Charles ST-ETIENNE dit LATOUR abt. 1640 in Canada . Charles ST-ETIENNE dit LATOUR was born abt. 1593 in Champagne, France. Charles died abt. 1663 in Acadia, Canada (Acadie).
Françoise-Marie JACQUELIN died abt. 1645 in Canada.
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JACQUELIN, FRANÇOISE-MARIE, Acadian heroine, wife of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour; b. 1602 in France; d. 1645 at Fort La Tour.
Nothing factual is known about her background. Although Charles de Menou d’Aulnay states she was the daughter of a Le Mans barber and became an actress in Paris, proof is lacking and it seems more probable that she was the daughter of a member of the lesser nobility. In 1640 she accepted a proposal of marriage from Charles de La Tour delivered by his La Rochelle agent, Desjardins Du Val. She sailed for Port Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) where the ceremony was performed that same year. The couple settled at La Tour’s fort situated at the mouth of the Saint John River. Here she made her home and gave birth to a son.
Almost immediately after her marriage she became her husband’s courageous supporter in a struggle with d’Aulnay for power in Acadia. In 1642 she evaded d’Aulnay’s blockade of the Saint John and made her way to France where she...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)
JACQUELIN, FRANÇOISE-MARIE, Acadian heroine, wife of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour; b. 1602 in France; d. 1645 at Fort La Tour.
Nothing factual is known about her background. Although Charles de Menou d’Aulnay states she was the daughter of a Le Mans barber and became an actress in Paris, proof is lacking and it seems more probable that she was the daughter of a member of the lesser nobility. In 1640 she accepted a proposal of marriage from Charles de La Tour delivered by his La Rochelle agent, Desjardins Du Val. She sailed for Port Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) where the ceremony was performed that same year. The couple settled at La Tour’s fort situated at the mouth of the Saint John River. Here she made her home and gave birth to a son.
Almost immediately after her marriage she became her husband’s courageous supporter in a struggle with d’Aulnay for power in Acadia. In 1642 she evaded d’Aulnay’s blockade of the Saint John and made her way to France where she...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)
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