René Le Coq de La Saussaye, (died some time after 1613), from Gaillon-sur-Seine ( Eure), in France, was appointed agent and lieutenant by

Antoinette de Pons Antoinette de Pons-Ribérac, comtesse de La Roche-Guyon and marquise de Guercheville (1560 - 16 January 1632) was a French court official. She served as ''Première dame d'honneur'' to the queen of France, Marie de' Medici, from 1600 until 1632. S ...

, Marquise de Guercheville, for the founding of the mission of Saint Sauveur on

Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Island (MDI; french: Île des Monts Déserts) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine. With an area of it is the 52nd-largest island in the United States, the sixth-largest island in the contiguous ...

in the French colony of

Acadia Acadia (french: link=no, Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the The Maritimes, Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17t ...

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