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Montauban, chez Jerosme Legier, et se vend à Paris, chez Claide-Jean-Baptiste Herissant, n.d. [1752].12mo [162 x 91 mm] of (8) ll., 556 pp., (1) l. Brown calf, blind-stamped fillet around the covers, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.
The first edition of these annals recounting the creation in Quebec City of the first hospital by the Hospitallers of Dieppe under the auspices of the Duchess of Aiguillon, niece of the cardinal de Richelieu.
Barbier, II, 686.
Driven out of New France after the fall of Quebec to the Kirke brothers in 1629, the Jesuits went back there three years later after the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632) gave France back its colony and, for a time, "the Canadian Church will be missionary", with Father Paul Le Jeune at its head. It was him who, in 1634, expressed the need for a hospital to care for the natives and the few settlers there.
It was with the Natives in mind that Father Le Jeune asked for hospital nuns to come to Quebec City.… Read More