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livres and he petitioned the king to be released from his obligations.
The petition was granted and soon thereafter the Council of the Navy,
while recognizing Cadillac's occasional contributions to the colony,
concluded that he no longer should govern Louisiana. Almost exactly
three years after he assumed command on the lower Mississippi, the
governor's career there ended. For a second time, Cadillac was
recalled to France.23
Cadillac's successor at Fort Pontchartrain was Francois Dauphine
de la Forest, a native of France who had come to Canada in 1675 as a
lieutenant of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. La Forest and
the historically better known of La Salle's lieutenants, Henri de
Tonti, formed a trading company that was partially financed on one
occasion with a loan of 7,000 livres from two of St. Denis's siblings,
Charles and Charlotte Francoise Juchereau de St. Denis, who report-
edly made substantial loans to several traders.24 Charles Juchereau de
St. Denis, a military officer-turned-royal judge-turned-trader from
Montreal, established a tannery on the Ouabache River in 1703. His
father-in-law, interestingly, personally had advanced large sums of
cash to La Salle, including 46,000 livres in 1678-1679.25 Charlotte
Francoise, a wealthy widow, married La Forest in 1702.26 La Forest
and Tonti controlled or directly influenced trade and politics
throughout the Illinois Territory during the last decades of the sev-
enteenth century. Their trading company ultimately was so negatively
impacted by the French crown's commercial policy changes that it
was forced to dissolve.27
For Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, about to embark on his first journey
to New Spain, it was his contract with Crozat's company that imposed
strictures. The agreement forced him to sign a note for the trade goods
and supplies issued to him and required him to repay in specie.
Cadillac's report to Crozat in his letter dated October 26, 1713, includ-
ed a vague comment that the enterprise was "executed at the cost and
23 McWilliams, Fleur de Lys and Calumet, 203, 204.
24 John Fortier and Donald Chaput, "A Historical Reexamination of Juchereau's Illinois
Tannery," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 62 (Winter, 1969), 386.
2s Norman W. Caldwell, "Charles Juchereau de St. Denys: A French Pioneer in the Mississippi
Valley," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 28 (June, 1941), 564. Charles Juchereau de St. Denis
married fourteen year old Denise-Therese Migeon de Bransac in 1692. Her father was the
wealthy Jean Baptiste Migeon de Bransac, lieutenant general of Montreal. Information from
author's personal files.
26 Charlotte FranCoise Juchereau de St. Denis was widowed by Francois Viennay-Pachot, a wealthy
merchant from Grenoble, France, with whom she had sixteen children. Caldwell, "Charles
Juchereau de St. Denys," 570o.
27 Clarence Walworth Alvord, The Illinois Country, 1673-.818 (Springfield: Illinois Centennial
Commission, 192o), 100-102.346
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