1636-1646.

QUEBEC AND ITS TENANTS.


THE NEW GOVERNOR.--EDIFYING EXAMPLES.--LE JEUNE'S CORRESPONDENTS.--
RANK AND DEVOTION.--NUNS.--PRIESTLY AUTHORITY.--CONDITION OF QUEBEC.--
THE HUNDRED ASSOCIATES.--CHURCH DISCIPLINE.--PLAYS.--FIREWORKS.--
PROCESSIONS.--CATECHIZING.--TERRORISM.--PICTURES.--THE CONVERTS.--
THE SOCIETY OF JESUS.--THE FORESTERS.


I have traced, in another volume, the life and death of the noble founder
of New France, Samuel de Champlain. It was on Christmas Day, 1635,
that his heroic spirit bade farewell to the frame it had animated,
and to the rugged cliff where he had toiled so long to lay the corner-
stone of a Christian empire.

Quebec was without a governor. Who should succeed Champlain and would
his successor be found equally zealous for the Faith, and friendly to the
mission? These doubts, as he himself tells us, agitated the mind of the
Father Superior, Le Jeune; but they were happily set at rest, when,
on a morning in June, he saw a ship anchoring in the basin below, and,
hastening with his brethren to the landing-place, was there met by
Charles Huault de Montmagny, a Knight of Malta, followed by a train of
officers and gentlemen. As they all climbed the rock together, Montmagny
saw a crucifix planted by the path. He instantly fell on his knees
before it; and nobles, soldiers, sailors, and priests imitated his
example. The Jesuits sang Te Deum at the church, and the cannon roared
from the adjacent fort. Here the new governor was scarcely installed,