He met her joyfully in that land where love
is real, and where its promises are never broken.
The death of the Bourgeois Philibert, affecting so many fortunes,
was of immense consequence to the Colony. It led to the ruin of the
party of the Honnetes Gens, to the supremacy of the Grand company,
and the final overthrow of New France.
The power and extravagance of Bigot after that event grew without
check or challenge, and the departure of the virtuous La
Galissoniere left the Colony to the weak and corrupt administrations
of La Jonquiere, and De Vaudreuil. The latter made the Castle of
St. Louis as noted for its venality as was the Palace of the
Intendant. Bigot kept his high place through every change. The
Marquis de Vaudreuil gave him free course, and it was more than
suspected shared with the corrupt Intendant in the plunder of the
Colony.
These public vices bore their natural fruit, and all the efforts of
the Honnetes Gens to stay the tide of corruption were futile.
Montcalm, after reaping successive harvests of victories, brilliant
beyond all precedent in North America, died a sacrifice to the
insatiable greed and extravagance of Bigot and his associates, who,
while enriching themselves, starved the army and plundered the
Colony of all its resources.
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