A R M A M E N T
L e Brézé
N° 00 D E P A R T M E N T de La ROCHELLE
Crew of the ship Le Brézé built 1in 6____at____
Weighting 800 tons 118 feet loaded 14 feet unloaded, 2 decks, 2 poops
Owned and armed by King Louis the 14th with……..cannons
Under the command of Sieur la Brisardière ( or Job Forant) bound for Guadeloupe then the Gaspe Peninsula
Departed La Rochelle
February
26, 1664
for Madeira, Cap Vert,Cayenne, Martinique,
And
Arrived at Guadeloupe
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Departed April 25, 1664
Arrival at Gaspe(or Percee) June 18, 1665 Québec June 30, 1665
Return to La Rochelle ……….
Nature of the passengers : Officers and soldiers of the Regiment Carignan-Saliere
Companies: Berthier (L’ Allier) , La Durantaye (Chambelle),Monteil (Poitou ), La Brisardiee (Orleans ).
The companies disembarked at Gaspe were sent to Quebec city aboard following ships : Le Cat de Hollande and Le Vieux Siméon under the orders of Marquis of Tracy
Historical note :
The Breze was named to honor Urbain Le Maille Marquis de Brézé (1597-Feb 2, 1650). He was captain of the Guards to the Queen Mother(1620) Goverbor of Saumur (1626) Captain of the 3rd company of the Guards to the King (1627), Counsel of the state (Dec 1629) Field Marshall (1630) France's ambassador to Sweden (1631) Governor of Calais, France's Viceroy of Catalogne (Nov 17, 1641)
On Nov0. 25,1617, he married Nicole du Plessis-Richelieu, the youger sister of Armand-Jean Plessis-Richelieu. See Wikipedia.
Crew
Officers
Sailers
Beginners
Ship's boy
| Passengers | ||
| Staff officers | ||
| M. de Salières | Colonel Commandant | |
| Jean-Baptiste Dubois | Sior of Cocreaumont and of St-Maurice | Commandant of the Artillery and Delegate of the Quarter Master |
| Alexandre de Chaumont | Hnight | Aide and Brigadier |
| Jean Dugal | Sior Dufresne | Major of the troops in Canada |
| Captains | ||
| Alexandre Berthier | Sior of Bellechasse and of Villemur | Regiment of Linières |
| Isaac Berthier | Regiment of l’Allier | |
| Jacques de Chambly | ||
| Antoine Pécaudy | Sior of Contrecoeur | |
| Michel Sidrac Dugué | Sior of Boisbriant | |
| Olivier Morel of La Durantaye | Regiment La Durantaye | |
| Hubert D’Aubigny (or Hector Andigny) | Lord of Grandfontaine . Sior of Wally | François Masse's Infantry Regiment and rider in the Poitou Regiment, |
| Pierre of St Paul | Sior of Lamothe-Licière | |
| Arnoul of Laubia | Regiment of Broglie | |
| François Montail | Sior of Clérac | Regiment of Poitou |
| François Pollet de la Combe Pocatière | Fieldmarshall | |
| Balthazar Annibal Alexis de La Frédière | Nephew of Colonel of Salieres | |
| Pierre of Sorel | Company of Sorel | |
| Pierre of St Ours | Company of St Ours | |
| Louis Petit | Company of Petit | |
| Pierre-André de Fromont | Company of Fromont | |
| Jean-Maurice Philippe de Vernon de La Fouille | Company of La Fouille | |
| Jean Escande de Latour | Company of Latour | |
| Abraham de Maximy | Company of Maximin | |
| Etienne de Rougemont | Company of Rougemont | |
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The companies captains are listed on this ship but are equally listed with their own companies. |
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| Lieutenant | ||
| …..Féraud | First aide de camp | |
| …..Mignardet | Company Colonelle | |
| François Ste-Croix | Company Dugué | |
| Pierre de Marson | Sior of Joybert | Company Grandfontaine |
| Séraphin Margane | Sior of La Valtrie | Regiment of Linières |
| Antoine Lafrenaye | Sior of Brucy | Regiment of Auvergne |
| Philippe Carrion | Sior of Fresnoy | Regiment of l’ Estrade Company Lamothe |
| Jean-Louis Douglas | Hnight | |
| Valentin Frapier | Sior of Beauregard | |
| Jean de L' Epinay | ||
| Edmé le Sueur | ||
| André Jarret | Sior of Beauregard | |
| René Gauthier | Sior of Varennes | |
| …..du Luques | Who perished in 1666 | |
| Ensign | ||
| François-Xavier Tarieu | Sior of Naudiere | Company of St- Ours |
| Prudent-Alexandre Tabouret | Sior of Veronne | Company of Berthier |
| Pierre Mouët | Sior de Moras | Company Laubia |
| Paul Morel | Regiment of l’ Estrade Company Lamothe | |
| François Jarret de Verchères | Company Contrecoeur | |
| Jean Laumonier | Sior of Traversy | Regiment of Orléans killed in 1666 |
| Roch Thoery | Sior of l’Ormeau | Lieutenant with the regiment of the Queen Company Dugue |
| Pierre Bécard de Granville | ||
| Dominique Lefevre | Sior of Guesquelin | Rider |
| Jean Nicolas | Sior of Brandis | |
| Sébastien Villieu | Sior of Daudeville | |
| Paul Dupuis | ||
| Vincent de Castin | ||
| Darienne | ||
| Randin | ||
| Cadets | ||
| Gabriel Berthé | Sior of Chailly | |
| Nicolas of Choisy | Company Maximin | |
| Unknown rank | ||
| Louis of Cauchy | Sior of Noirolle, (Tracy 's parent ) | Captured by Iroquois then freed. |
| Roch of Saint-Ours | Hnight | Company of Chambly |
| Jacques Labadie | Company of Laubia | |
| Phillippe Gauthier | Company La Fouille (Uncle's Cie ) | |
| ....... Bavie ? | Company of St- Ours | |
| Laurent Borry | Sior of Grandmaison | |
| Flottant | Hnight of Lescure | |
| Pierre Dupas | ||
| Saint-Nicolas | ||
| Sauvole | ||
| Salampar | Voluntary Gentihomme | |
| Beaubel | Voluntary Officer | |
| Chasy | Parent's of Marechal of Estrade | Killed in battle |
| Aiguesmortes | Killed in battle | |
| Chamat | Killed in battle | |
| De Chaulmes | Killed in battle | |
| Montagni | Killed in battle | |
| Marin |
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| Chaplains | ||
| Flavien of Saint-Pons | Secular priest calles the abbot of Carignan | |
| Jean Baptiste Dubois d’Egriseilles | Abbot | |
| Thoerry Beschefer | Father Jesuit | |
| Claude Bardy | Father Jesuit | |
| François Duperron | Father Jesuit | |
| Canadian commanders | ||
| Pierre le Gardeur de Repentigny | Voluntary of Québec | |
| René Louis Chartier de Lotbinière | Voluntary Lieutenant of Québec | |
| Charles Lemoine | Voluntary of Montréal |
Note : Louis Godefroy from Normanville, and Trois-Rivières led the Algonquins. I do not have enough Canadian officers.
"When one likes, one cherished what one has."Benjamin Sulte
| Company Berthier | Detachment of the l' Allier Regiment | |
| Alexandre Berthier | Sior of Bellechasse and of Villemur | Captain |
| Claude Sébastien of Bassier of Villieu | Sior of Daudeville | Lieutenant |
| Séraphin Margane | Sior of Lavalterie | Lieutenant |
| Tadoureau Sior | Sior of Veronne | |
| Jacques Brin | Known as La Pensée | |
| Belle-Isle | ||
| Louis Bureau | Known as Sans Soucy | |
| François Carcy | Known as LaViolette | |
| Champagne | ||
| François Couillard | Known as La Fontaine | |
| Jean Gely | Known as La Verdure | |
| Haudry | ||
| Jolicoeur | ||
| Michel Goron | Known as Petit Bois | |
| Lafleur | ||
| La Prairie | ||
| La Rozée | ||
| La Vaux | ||
| Jean Catalan | Known as Le Catalan | |
| Le Jeune | Known as La Violette | |
| Honoré Martel | Known as La Montagne | |
| André Mignier | Known as Lagassé | |
| Etienne Blanchon | Known as La Rose | |
| Company La Durantaye | Detachment of the Chambelle Regiment | |
| Olivier Morel de la Durantaye | Captain | |
| M. of St-Aubert | ||
| M. of Laubry | ||
| Mathurin Besnard | Known as La Jeunesse | |
| Mathurin Duchéron | Known asDes Lauriers | |
| Jean-Pierre Forgues | Known as Mont-Rouge | |
| La Musique | ||
| Michel Malet | ||
| Company Monteil | Detachment of the Poitou Regiment | |
| M.Tracy (Coming from the Antilles ) | Captain | |
| François de Tapie Sior of Monteil and the Clerac | ||
| Séraphin Marganne of La Valtrie | Lieutenant | |
| Jean Gély | Known as La Verdure | Corporal |
| Michel Hébert | Known as La Verdure | Sergeant |
| Nicolas Audet | Known as La Pointe | |
| Jean Gaigneux | Known as La Framboise | |
| Jean Vincent | Known as Vincent | |
| Antoine Bessières | Known as Basiers | |
| Laurent Bélan | Known as La Rivière | |
| Michel Rognon | Known as La Roche | |
| François Dessureaux | Known as Le Bourguignon | |
| ……. | Known as La Plante | |
| René Siret | Known as La Fleur | |
| ……. | Known as Sans Soucy | |
| Etienne Charles | Known as La Jeunesse | |
| Etienne Content | Known as Berry | |
| Known as La Fortune | ||
| Known as L’ Espérance | ||
| Known as Du Four | ||
| René Grimault | Known as Grimau | |
| Pierre Labbé | Known as LaCroix | |
| Jacques Du Bois | Known as Dubois | |
| Mathurin Villeneuve | Known as Villeneuve | |
| Jacques of Lalande | Known as La Lande | |
| François Bacquet | Known as La Montagne | |
| Known as Bonneau | ||
| Known as Le Parisien | ||
| Claude Salois | Known as Saluer | |
| Known as Leuradeau | ||
| Léonard du Bord | Known as De Bord | |
| Etienne Bourru | Known as La Roze | |
| Antoine Besiers | ||
| Léonard Debord | Known as Lajeunesse | |
| Company La Brisardière | Detachment of the Orleans Regiment | |
| La Brisardière | Captain | |
| Louis de Ganchy | Sior of Lerole | |
| Jean Laumonier | Sior of Travecy | |
| Pierre Balan | Known as La Combe | |
| Jean Perrier (Parrier) | Known as Perrier/La Fleur | |
| Fayat | ||
| Pierre Joncas | Known as La Pierre | |
| ........ | Known as Tranchemontagne | |
| Pierre Toupin | Known as Toupin |
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Leaving La Rochelle Feb. 26, 1664 with
Le Teron and many other vessels well equipped with provisions
and ammunitions for the war, the Breze commanded by Alexandre de
Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, Knight, Counsel to the King
and Commander-in-Chief of the troops in Nouvelle-France stopped over
at Madeira and Cap Vert where Mr. de La Barre gave a splendid
reception. The correspondent, Martin Forland, wrote in the
Dictionnaire de la marine, the Breze commanded by Job Forant was
attacked off Portugal by 5 Turkish vessels in pursuit. Then the ship
made for Cayenne to charge the Dutch Governor to give the island to
the French. De La Barre, under the King's orders, stayed in place
with his ship. The Breze continued its route towards
Martinique and Guadeloupe where he made for Santo Domingo on April
25, 1665. The favorable winds permitted safe crossing of the Caicos
to take the Bahamian currants off Florida and to round Bermuda in
less than a month of their departure. Arriving at Perce at the end
of May at the same time as 2 other ships from La Rochelle carrying 4
companies of the Carignan Regiment: Berthier (L'Allier), La
Brisardiere (Orleans) La Durantaye (Chambelle) and Monteil (Poitou).
The winds changed and the water's pull led the Brese to Perce. The 2
others ships
le
Cat and
the Vieux Simeon brought
the soldiers to Quebec City. The Relations gave 2 different dates
for the arrival of these w lighter ships, June 20 and 20; probably
some boats followed these latter ones. On board also was the Jesuits,
Claude Bardy and Francois Duperron. Meanwhile the
Marquis de Tracy fell sick and weakened by fever, he declined a
magnificent reception in his honor which the people of Quebec had
prepared, but they accompanied him to the church to meet the bishop.
Later the Huron and the Algonquin gave him a grand reception with an
exchange of gifts to seal their alliance against their common enemy,
the Iroquois.
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.The 20 companies of the Carignan Regiment arrived on the Charentian coasts at the end of the 1664 ~ 1665 winter. Recruitment in the region Aunis-Saintonge-Poitou-Angoumois permitted troop reinforcements so that each company had better than 50 men. |
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After reveling in the city's streets , the Regiment leaft the rochellian roads in Spring 1665 to reach Quebec. The embarkment stretched over more than a month. |
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