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Sur la version anglaise j'ai inclus quelques notes envoyées par un de nos lecteurs, JonahMc@aol.com sur des faits qui m'étaient inconnus de la mort de Montcalm. Si vous avez des notes que vous aimeriez partager avec nos lecteurs, vous pouvez me les envoyer à: gpfern@sympatico.ca et je les placerai ici côte à côte avec celles de Jonah. Merci de votre collaboration .

La chûte de la nouvelle-France en 1759 , un lien hors du site.

Chronicles are not always translated.
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A bit of history

On September 14 1752, England started using the gregorien calender.

1754 The population of New France is now 76000 strong.

September 13, 1759. The battle of the Plains of Abraham was launched. Within 15 minutes, both Montcalm and Wolfe were killed and 1300 soldiers were wounded.
A note form one of our readers: JonahMc@aol.com

I enjoyed your section entitled “Brief Chronicles of History.” There is a slight error regarding the death of Montcalm. Watteau's famous painting "The Death of Montcalm", has lead many to assume that the French general died on the battlefield. In fact, Watteau painted this depiction years after the fact. The artist was unfamiliar with New France, and his painting originally featured a palm tree prominently on the battlefield, until he was peruaded to re-paint the tree as a pine. Montcalm was mortally wounded very early in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, but he malingered and expired the following morning, on Sept. 14th. The doleful community buried him in a cavity in the floor of the Ursuline Convent that had been opened by a shell from the English canon. His remains rested under the convent for many years, until they were exhumed in the 19th century and reinterred in a crypt. His skull, however, was put on display in the convent for many decades. The base of the skull was wrapped in velvet of imperial blue with gold lacing in the style of a French officer's collar. In 2001, the Ursuline order decided to move Montcalm's remains to the nearby "Cemetary of Heroes," where many of Montcalm's slain officers and militiamen rest. For descriptions of the battle and the political developments leading to the Seven Years War, I recommend "The White and the Gold," a history of the French regime in Canada by Thomas B. Costain.

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