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seriesChapter 4: Louise Mousseau (Monceau), the guardian (1635-1707)A widow and grandmother, Louise Mousseau obtained on 17 April 1683 the retrocession of l’île Madame and the seigneury of St-Pierre for her two under-age granddaughters, whose guardian she was.
seriesChapter 3: Romain Becquet, seigneur in spite of himself (1640-1682)A royal notary at Quebec, Romain Becquet received l’île Madame and the seigneury of St-Pierre without ever setting foot there; the two fiefs were taken back in 1683, the year after his death.
seriesChapter 1: Our region, from prehistory to the arrival of the Europeans.From the glaciers to the Champlain Sea and the sea’s withdrawal 9,600 years ago: the Cap St-Claude site before the Europeans came, and the traces left by its first occupants.