s
ecclesiastical career, 21;
renounces his inheritance in favour of his brother Jean-Louis, 21, 22;
his ordination, 22;
appointed archdeacon of the Cathedral of Evreux, 22;
spends fifteen months in Rome, 23;
three years in the religious retreat of M. de Bernieres, 24, 25;
embarks for New France with the title of Bishop of Petraea
_in partibus_, 26;
disputes his authority with the Abbe de Queylus, 27, 28;
given the entire jurisdiction of Canada, 28;
his personality and appearance, 28, 29;
his devotion to the plague-stricken, 33;
private life, 33, 34;
friction with d'Argenson on questions of precedence, 34;
opposes the liquor trade with the savages, 36-9;
carries an appeal to the throne against the liquor traffic, 39;
returns to Canada, 41;
his efforts to establish a seminary at Quebec, 47-50;
obtains an ordinance from the king granting the seminary permission to
collect tithes, 50;
receives letters from Colbert and the king, 52, 53;
takes up his abode in the seminary, 55;
his pastoral visits, 74, 75, 87;
founds the smaller seminary in 1668, 97-9;
his efforts to educate the colonists, 97-100, 124;
builds the first sanctuary of Sainte Anne, 101;
his ardent desire for more missionaries is granted, 104, 105;
his advice to the missionaries, 105-7;
receives a letter from the king _re_ the Recollet priests, 110;
created Bishop of Quebec (1674), 129;
his reasons for demanding the title of Bishop of Quebec, 130, 131;
visits the abbeys of Maubec and Lestrees, 138;
leases the abbey of Lestrees to M. Berthelot, 138;
exchanges the Island of Orleans for Ile Jesus, 138;
visits his family, 139;
renews the union of his seminary with that of the Foreign Missions, 140;
returns to Canada after four years absence, 141;
ordered by the king to investigate the evils of the liquor
traffic, 171, 172;
leaves again for France (1678), 173;
acquires from the king a slight restriction over the liquor traffic, 174;
confers a favour on the priests of St. Sulpice, 175, 176;
returns to Canada (1680), 184, 186;
wills all that he possesses to his seminary, 185;
makes a pastoral visit of his diocese, 189;
his ill-health, 190;
writes to the king for reinforcements, 191, 192;
decides to carry his resignation in person to the king, 196;
establishes a chapter, 197, 198;
sails for France, 198;
to remain titular bishop until the consecration of