François Dollier de Casson (1636, Large-Fougeray - 1701, Montreal) comes from a noble family of Vitré. It would have probably been born with Dévoriaye (aliàs: Dévoriais)

Marguerite of Buttay , girl of Alain and Francoise Knight, collects, of the succession of his/her mother, the noble ground of Praye, parish of Fougeray, and, a little later, that of Dévoriaye, which it transmitted to her husband, César Dollier originating in the country in Glazed, second wire of Guillaume Dollier, rider, lord of $the Hague - of Erbrée, and Roberte de Denée. By this marriage, César Dollier was accustomed in the parish of Fougeray, towards the beginning of the 16th century, and it made stock (Gén there. Dollier, by Hillock-Gault). Claude Dollier, rider, lord of Dévoriaye, great-grandson of César and Marguerite of Buttay, widower without children of Marguerite de Bruc, died in 1633, married in second weddings Francoise d' Escaillun, which founded a mass per week, in 1645, in the vault of Dévoriaye (Décl. very. of Fab. in 1690). From this second marriage came a great number of children; … extract of " FOUGERAY SINCE the NINTH CENTURY UNTIL OUR JOURS" of A. of BREHIER printing works LAFOLYE to VALVES in 1895.

It begins a military career with the Maréchal of Turenne. Seminarist in 1657, it is sent nearly ten years later as missionary to the Canada. He becomes director of the seminar of Quebec in 1671. In 1674, it returns to France for health reasons before returning again to Canada to spend its 24 last years to Montreal before dying in 1701. He is regarded as the second founder of Montreal and wrote the first history of the city.

Publications

• History Of Montreal, 1640 - 1672 . Eusebe Senecal . Montreal, 1871. Edition conforms to the manuscript of Paris.
• has History Montreal 1640-1672 off. Translated and Edited With has Life off the Author By Ralph Flentey. London : J. Mr. Dents & S22ons, 1928