were to delay their departure for France until July 19.
And here the narrative of the colony breaks off.

Of Roberval's subsequent fate we can learn hardly anything.
There is some evidence to show that Cartier was dispatched
from France to Canada to bring him back. Certain it is
that in April 1544 orders were issued for the summons of
both Cartier and Roberval to appear before a commission
for the settling of their accounts. The report of the
royal auditors credits Cartier apparently with a service
of eight months spent in returning to Canada to bring
Roberval home. On the strength of this, it is thought
likely that Cartier, returning safely to France in the
summer of 1542, was sent back again at the king's command
to aid in the return of the colonists, whose enterprise
was recognized as a failure. After this, Roberval is lost
to sight in the history of France. Certain chroniclers
have said that he made another voyage to the New World
and perished at sea. Others have it that he was assassinated
in Paris near the church of the Holy Innocents. But
nothing is known.

Cartier also is practically lost from sight during the
last fifteen years of his life. His name appears at
intervals in the local records, notably on the register
of baptisms as a godfather. As far as can be judged, he
spent the remainder of his days in comfortable retirement
in his native town of St Malo. Besides his house in the
seaport he had a country residence some miles distant at
Limoilou. This old house of solid and substantial stone,