Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge (c. 1612 – 31 May 1660) was the French

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from 1648 to 1651 and acting governor from 1657 to 1658. He caused to be built the house that is today known as the

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Biography

He was born at

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into a noble family, the son of Antoine d'Ailleboust and Suzanne Hotman. His grandfather was

François Hotman François Hotman (23 August 1524 – 12 February 1590) was a French Protestant lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchomaques, who struggled against absolute monarchy. His first name is often written 'Francis' ...

. He was trained as a military engineer. He went to Ville-Marie (now

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) in 1643 and played a leading role there; he was an acting

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. After being named governor in 1648, he tried in vain to prevent the

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from annihilating most of the

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s, who had allied themselves with the French settlers. On 17 May 1657, at

Saint-Nazaire Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: ''Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer'') is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany. The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean ...

Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (15 February 1612 9 September 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Fort Ville-Marie (modern day Montreal) in New France (Province of Quebec, Canada). Early life Maisonneuve was born in ...

and d'Ailleboust, as well as three

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( Gabriel Souart, Antoine d'Allet, and Dominique Galinier) under the leadership of Gabriel de Queylus, the first superior of Saint-Sulpice at Montreal, boarded the ship bound for Canada. The travellers, after a stormy crossing, landed on the

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, 29 July. In the middle of August the four Sulpicians, whom the

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had kept as their guests for a few days in their residence, settled down at Ville-Marie. Louis d'Ailleboust died at Montreal on 31 May 1660, at the age of 48. He left no children. He was buried on 1 June 1660, in the cemetery of the hospital that stood on the site of today's

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* * Ailleboust de Coulonge, Louis d' Colonists of Fort Ville-Marie Ailleboust de Coulonge, Louis d' Ailleboust de Coulonge, Louis d' Governors of Montreal 17th-century Canadian politicians {{NewFrance-stub