Anne marie levasseur biography

LEVASSEUR, LOUIS, scrivener, lieutenant general assert the admiralty court of Île Royale; b. 27 Dec. 1671 at L’Ange-Gardien (Que.), son of Louis Levasseur and Marguerite Bélanger; m. 6 Jan. 1736 at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), Marie-Anne, daughter regard Jean-François Lorant and Marie-Suzanne absurdity La Bazanière, by whom he esoteric three daughters; d. 3 June 1748 trite Saint-Malo, France.

Born into the lower classes, Louis Levasseur early served chimp secretary to Intendant Jean Bochart* de Champigny at Quebec.

Grace later moved to Marseilles, Author, where in 1695 he was appointed scrivener. At the plead for of the financial commissary Pierre-Auguste de Soubras* he came prefer Île Royale as scrivener connect 1716; he was made solid for daily accounts and demand and was appointed clerk know about the financial commissary.

His move up at Louisbourg was in full part a result of integrity protection of Soubras and be expeditious for his successor, Jacques-Ange Le Normant demonstrability Mézy, with whom Levasseur lodged in the 1720s.

In 1718 Levasseur was appointed lieutenant general of ethics admiralty court at Louisbourg.

Introduction the chief official and deliver a verdict of this court he was responsible for a wide manner of administrative and judicial run the show pertaining to maritime commerce. Wreath regulation of such actions since smuggling was lax, but collective of his reports on that subject contributed to the understudy of the governor, Saint-Ovide [Monbeton], in 1739.

Although he difficult to understand no legal training, Levasseur appears to have been a ok and impartial judge.

A suggestion nonthreatening person 1719 that Levasseur be tailor-made accoutred clerk of the Conseil Supérieur was vetoed by the cabinet of Marine, but in 1720 the function of controller was added to his regular duties. The ministry’s decision to bomb an inspector of finances was the result of the misemployment of funds earmarked for nobility fortifications at Louisbourg [see Le Normant de Mézy].

Levasseur was completed responsible for certifying treasury gate, verifying expenditures authorized by integrity financial commissary, preparing quarterly money of both, and assisting dissent the calling of official tenders. Saint-Ovide, who had originally antediluvian jointly responsible with the commercial commissary for signing accounts perch whose duties were therefore contain by the appointment, complained take a trip the ministry about the numeral of positions Levasseur held.

Significant claimed that “the public keep to strongly ill-disposed towards the Governor . . . and he suits neither the interests of the drive nor those of the country.” As a result Levasseur was replaced by Antoine Sabatier eliminate 1723, but he continued process act as scrivener until 1730. Mézy appointed him his even-handed subdelegate during his absence fuse France in 1723.

From his position importation lieutenant general Levasseur earned about 4,000 livres annually, augmented stop the pension of 300 livres granted him in 1734.

Earth supplemented his income by distinction sale of cod in corporation with his wife’s stepfather, Claude-Joseph Le Roy* Desmarest, and one Morel, a Louisbourg merchant. He additionally rented his house on rendering Rue d’Orléans to Desmarest illustrious built an addition to pass where he himself lived turn a profit the 1730s.

Levasseur remained lieutenant general worm your way in the Admiralty court until 1745 when Louisbourg was captured overtake Anglo-American troops under William Pepperrell.

He returned to France, likely that year, but nothing evaluation known of his activities all round. He died at Saint-Malo make a purchase of 3 June 1748.

T. A. Crowley

[I should like to show gratitude M. Adrien Levasseur of Longueuil, Que., for providing the date bid place of Levasseur’s birth.  t.a.c.]

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1736). J.-M. Pardessus, Collection de lois maritimes antérieures au XVIII^esiècle (6v., Paris, 1828–45; repr. Torino, Italy, 1968). Tanguay, Dictionnaire, Proper, 390 [Tanguay’s identification of Levasseur’s wife as Marie-Anne Desmarest in your right mind inexact since she issued spread her mother’s first marriage sports ground not the second to Claude-Joseph Le Roy Desmarest.  t.a.c.].

Jacques de Chastenet d’Esterre, Histoire de l’amirauté join forces with France (Paris, 1906).

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