Claude of Guard post of Aubigny

Claude of Guard post of Aubigny , knight, intendant of the News-France of 1668 with 1670, was born in 1620 with Paris, and died in 1680.

It belonged to a family of the noblesse de robe which served the crown since several generations. In 1654, it occupied the station to advise at the court of the Currencies, specialized court which sat at Paris to know offenses made by the employees of the 30 royal currencies. In 1666, it published an important study on the old French currencies, entitled Recherches curious about the monnayes of France since the beginning of monarchy (Paris, 1666). He married Marie Lescot (or Lescault), of which he had a girl.

At the beginning of 1668, Colbert indicated it to succeed Jean Talon, which had asked for the permission of return in France for health reasons. It arrived at Quebec in September, accompanied by his daughter. A nun nurse of the Hospital of Quebec described it like a large man and well done, erudite and polished, “whom prevented everyone and which could be made fear and like”. It had good fortune to have at its sides the secretary and temporary of Heel, Jean-Baptiste Patoulet, which had remained in the colony. This last was to him of a great assistance, advised it on the Canadian businesses and wrote the dispatches addressed to the minister annually.

Guard post had, however, the reputation to be assiduous in the performance of its duties and it made adopt with the sovereign Conseil an edict to stop the sale of brandy to the Indians, who, in a state of intoxication, committed the most odious crimes. By misfortune, he did not understand himself with Rémy de Courcelle, general governor of the colony (it in what he was far from being an exception), and Courcelle complained in Colbert that Bouteroue was subject to too the influence of Monseigneur de Laval *. Colbert defended Bouteroue and it informed Courcelle that the intendant was held in high regard in France and that it had always fulfilled his functions of the manner which was appropriate.

In 1670, Jean Heel, appointed intendant again, returned to Quebec and Bouteroue returned to France to the autumn. In a letter with Colbert, Talon declared, in a way rather condescending, that if it missed some of qualities necessary for the post of intendant of News-France, Bouteroue had made its possible and had attracted itself the regard of the principal citizens of the colony. In France, Bouteroue settled in Paris. Sometimes Colbert consulted it in connection with the businesses of News-France. He died in 1680.

Source: DBC

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