Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Thk Navarres And Macombs. Sketch Op Robert Navarre. In the year 1728 there arrived at Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit, from the town of Villeroi, diocese of Meaux, France, a young man who was destined to take a most promising position in the rising colony. Of finished education and dignified bearing, his polished and courtly manners at once demanded for him a respect and deference beyond what his youth would seem to have warranted. His commission from Louis XV designated him "Sub Delege" of the Intendant of Nouvelle France, with full judicial powers over all the vast tract of country extending from Lake Erie to the Mississippi. Receiver of the Domain is also one of the functions accredited to him on the records. Zealously devoting himself to his appointed duties, we notice as a result, an entire absence of the constant remonstrances and complaints of injustice which characterized the administration in the eastern department of the colony. He lived to see the decadence of French power on this continent," but even the English invader was compelled to speak of him in terms of eulogy. Modest in his deportment, of unimpeachable integrity, powerful in influencing the councils of the savages, by whom he was beloved and adopted, no one outside his immediate family suspected that in his veins coursed the proudest blood of France. The ancient records of Meaux disclose the fact that Jean Navarre, who married Perette Barat in 1772, was the fils naturel of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, and consequently half-brother to Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, the predecessor of the great line of Kings forming the Bourbon dynasty. A number of the descendants in France were ennobled and occupied positions near the throne. The Count de...
