Pierre de Sales Laterrière
Pierre Sales of Laterrière born in the Albigensian (1743 - 1815) is an adventurer who left France in 1766. He was made, then inspector and director of the Forges of the Saint-Maurice and Seigneur of the Crumblings. He illustrated himself with the Quebec the shortly after the English Conquest.
He studies medicine with Harvard (Massachusetts). Exerting then in the area of Three-Rivers, then in Quebec, he knows an adventurous and colourful existence. Facing the public opinion and the clergy, this free thinker defender of the midwives and Franc-maçon lived long years in cohabitation with Marie-Catherine Delezenne that it ends up marrying in 1799, after the death of its first husband.
Imprisoned by the governor Haldiman (1779-1782) the shortly after the American Invasion, it was then exiled with Newfoundland (1782-1783), following a false charge of treason.
He wrote his memories.
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