 | Francis Parkmann - Canada - 1875 - 512 pages
...Their condition, indeed, was often deplorable. " It is pitiful," says the intendant Charapigny, " to we their children, of which they have great numbers,...their wives and daughters working in the fields." 3 In another letter he asks aid from the king for Repentigny with his thirteen children, and for Tilly... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1876 - 556 pages
...trade in furs with the Indians and brought them up in a vagabond way. The Intendant, Champigny, said: " It is pitiful to see their children, of which they...great numbers, passing all summer with nothing on " but a shirt and their wives and daughters working in the " fields." t Parkman classes St. Castin... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1876 - 524 pages
...trade in furs with the Indians and brought them up in a vagabond way. The Intendaut, Champigny, said: " It is pitiful to see their children, of which they...great numbers, passing all summer with nothing on " but a shirt and their wives and daughters working in the " fields." t Parkman classes St. Castin... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1882 - 478 pages
...3 Their condition, indeed, was often deplorable. " It is pitiful," says the intendant Champigny, " to see their children, of which they have great numbers,...their wives and daughters working in the fields." 3 In another letter he asks aid from the king for Repentigny with his thirteen children, and for Tilly... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1885 - 472 pages
...poverty."3 Their condition, indeed, was often deplorable. " It is pitiful," says the intendant Champigny, " to see their children, of which they have great numbers,...their wives and daughters working in the fields." 3 In another letter he asks aid from the king for Repentigny with his thirteen children, and for Tilly... | |
 | Francis Parkman - America - 1897 - 360 pages
...poverty."1 Their condition, indeed, was often deplorable. "It is pitiful," says the intendant Champigny, "to see their children, of which they have great numbers,...shirt, and their wives and daughters working in the fields."2 In another letter he asks aid from the King for Repentigny with his thirteen children, and... | |
 | Francis Parkman - America - 1910 - 356 pages
...poverty." l Their condition, indeed, was often deplorable. "It is pitiful," says the intendant Champigny, "to see their children, of which they have great numbers,...shirt, and their wives and daughters working in the fields."2 In another letter he asks aid from the King for Repentigny with his thirteen children, and... | |
 | Henry Munson Utley, Byron M. Cutcheon - Michigan - 1906 - 408 pages
...in. miserable poverty."t Says the intendant Champigny, "It is pitiful to see their children, of whom they have great numbers, passing all summer with nothing...their wives and daughters working in the fields." While their rank and station did not permit them to do manual labor, the same restrictions did not... | |
 | Justin Harvey Smith - Canada - 1907 - 680 pages
...fact, aristocrats fell into the direst poverty. ' It is pitiful,' wrote the Intendant Champigny, ' to see their children, of which they have great numbers,...and their wives and daughters working in the fields ' ; and three of the four original nobles reached the very edge of starvation. 'Pride and sloth,' wrote... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - Acadia - 1909 - 400 pages
...a vagabondish fashion. Champigny, the French Intendant, says of the children of these soldiers : " It is pitiful to see their children, of which they...great numbers, passing all summer with nothing on but a shirt, and their wives and daughters working in the fields." Perhaps no more demoralizing or... | |
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... send their own children there to trade for furs in the Indian villages and in the depths of the forest, in spite of the prohibition of his Majesty. Yet, with all this, they are in miserable poverty."3 Their condition, indeed, was often deplorable.... 
