-Louis. But the
General Hospital was a mile out of the town, and in momentary
danger of capture by the English; while the Chateau had been
made untenable by the batteries of Point Levi, being immediately
exposed to their fire. Neither of these places was one to which the
dying general was likely to be removed, and it is probable that he
was suffered to die in peace at the house of the surgeon.
It has been said that the story of the burial of Montcalm in a
grave partially formed by the explosion of a bomb, rests only
on the assertion in his epitaph, composed in 1761 by the Academy
of Inscriptions at the instance of Bougainville. There is, however,
other evidence of the fact. The naval captain Foligny, writing
on the spot at the time of the burial, says in his Diary, under the
date of September 14: "A huit heures du soir, dans l'eglise des
Ursulines, fut enterre dans une fosse faite sous la chaire _par le
travail de la Bombe_, M. le Marquis de Montcalm, decede du matin
a 4 heures apres avoir recu tous les Sacrements. Jamais General
n'avoit ete plus aime de sa troupe et plus universellement regrette.
Il etoit d'un esprit superieur, doux, gracieux, affable,
familier a tout le monde, ce qui lui avoit fait gagner la confiance
de toute la Colonie: _requiescat in pace_."
The author of _Les Ursulines de Quebec_ says: "Un des projectiles
ayant fait une large ouverture dans le plancher de bas,
on en profita pour creuser la fosse du general.
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