Étienne CHARLES dit LAJEUNESSE
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"ETIENNE CHARLES WAS BAPTIZED IN VILLEJUIF ON FRIDAY 11 JUN 1643..."

"LOUIS XIV, THE SUN KING, SECONDED BY HIS MINISTER COLBERT, HAD DECIDED TO PUT AN END TO THE IROQUOIS MENACE IN NEW FRANCE. ON 19 NOVEMBER 1663, HE NAMED THE MARQUIS DE TRACY, LIEUTENANT GENERAL, IN CHARGE OF THE FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN THE NEW WORLD. THIS WORTHY LEADER DECIDED TO TAKE THE ENTIRE CARIGNAN-SALIERES REGIMENT, ABOUT 1,200 MEN, TO CANADA…ETIENNE CHARLES DIT LAJEUNESSE WAS A PART OF THIS FAMOUS REGIMENT..."

"ETIENNE CHARLES, AS A MEMBER OF A COMPANY WHICH HAD BEEN DEPLOYED IN THE ANTILLES FOR A WHOLE YEAR, WAS ASSIGNED TO GUARD QUEBEC AND ITS HINTERLAND..."

"IN 1667, WHILE STILL A SOLDIER, ETIENNE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE GARRISON AT TROIS-RIVIERES, SINCE QUEBEC WAS NO LONGER MENACED BY IROQUOIS AGGRESSION. WHILE THERE, THIS 24-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER FELL IN LOVE WITH MARIE-MADELEINE NIEL, ONE OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS, RECENTLY FROM FRANCE. HER LATE FATHER ROBERT AND HER MOTHER ANNA LAMBER, BOTH NORMANS, HAD BROUGHT HER INTO THE WORLD ABOUT 1651 AT SAINT GERVAIS, ONE OF THE NUMEROUS PARISHES IN THE CITY OF ROUEN. ON 21 OCTOBER 1667, THE MOTHER AND HER 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER PRESENTED THEMSELVES AT THE HOME OF NOTARY AMEAU IN ORDER THE HEAR READ THE CONTRACT OF MARRIAGE. THREE DAYS LATER... IN THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF TROIS RIVIERES,... A SUPICIEN PRIEST, GAVE THEM THE NUPTUAL BENEDICTION."

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