services are agreeable to you, I willingly make the sacrifice of repose,
and even of life."

This man was Paul de Chaumeday, _alias_ de Maisonneuve. On hearing these
words Dauversiere, filled with gratitude to God, adored His Divine
Providence, and believed that the noble volunteer was appointed by
heaven to lead the colonists. He embraced him with tears of joy and
departed forthwith to relate the circumstance to his associates. The
name of de Maisonneuve was well known to many of them, and his services
were gladly accepted. A second meeting of the association was then held,
at which it was unanimously agreed to appoint him Governor of Montreal.
In this quality he was presented to the King for the purpose of
expediting an official appointment. He was certainly a suitable person
to head such an expedition, as he had long been a faithful client of
Mary Immaculate. Many years before he made a vow of perpetual chastity
in her honor, and recited her office every day. His reputation stood
very high, and being in the full vigor of manhood, had given proofs of
courage and prudence, even in religious matters. His business being
quickly settled up, he set out for Rochelle with M. Dauversiere, each
rejoicing at having met the other. They had scarcely arrived there, when
another singular intervention of Providence took place, which was quite
as remarkable as the preceding one. This was the vocation of Jean Mance,
whose name will appear again. She was a young woman, about thirty years
old, the daughter of simple, honest parents in Langers, where she had
spent her youth in the most fervent exercises of piety, and was ignorant
of the extraordinary exertions then being made in France to colonize
Canada, but she felt inspired to pass the remainder of her life in some
place consecrated to the Blessed Virgin, and waited for Divine
Providence to direct her. She proposed her views to her confessor, but
he being also ignorant of the projected establishment of Montreal,