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686 ary Lore of the Lower St. Lawrence" (1862): " Maple Leaves " (4 vols., 1863-5) : " Les pe- cheries du Canada" (1863); "Memoir de Mont- calm vengee " (1865) ; " L' Album Canadien " (1870) ; " The Tourists' Note-Book " (1870) ; " Notes historiques sur les fortifications et les rues de Quebec" (1874); "Conference sur l'ornithologie" (1874); "Coup-d'ceil general sur l'ornithologie de l'Amerique du Nord '"(1875) ; "Quebec: Past and Present" (1876); "Chronicles of the St. Law- rence " (1878) ; " The Sword of Brigadier-General Montgomery " (1879) ; " The Scot in New France " (1880) ; " Notes sur l'archeologie, l'histoire, du Canada, etc." (1882) ; " Monographies et esquisses " (1885) ; and " Chasse et peche " (1887).

LE MOINE, Sauvolle, governor of Louisiana, b. in Montreal, Canada, about 1671 : d. in Biloxi, in what is now Mississippi, 22 July, 1701. He in- herited a large fortune from an aunt, and was sent to be educated in Prance, where he was a favorite in society and so remarkable for his attainments that he was known as the American prodigy. Ra- cine pronounced him a poet, Bossuet predicted that he would be a great orator, and Villars called him a marshal of France in embryo. He accom- panied Iberville and Bienville to the Mississippi, and the former left him in command of the colony there. Louis XIV. appointed him its governor in 1699, and he retained the office till his death. He was the first colonial governor of Louisiana.

LEMOS MESA, Manoel de (lay'-mos-may'- sah), Portuguese jurist, b. in Estremoz in 1670 ; d. in Coimbra in 1744. He went to Brazil about 1700, and for thirty years held various offices in the courts of justice of that country. He became chief justice of Brazil in 1732, but returned to his native country a few months before his death. His most important work is " Doacoo da Capitania de Porto Seguro em favor de Pedro Tourinho" (Coimbra, 1724). In it the author relates the conditions of the sale of Brazil by the natives to the early Portuguese settlers, and those which Leonor do Campo Tourinho exacted from the Portuguese government, after the death of her father, for her claims to the sites of Rio de Janeiro and other important cities of Brazil.

LE MOYNE, Charles, Sieur de Longueuil, b. in Dieppe, France, in 1626 : d. in Villemarie, Cana- da, in 1685. In 1641 he sailed for Canada, where, after spending four years among the Hurons and becoming familiar with their language, he settled at Villemarie and served as interpreter to the colony. In 1648 the Iroquois advanced toward the fort under pretence of parleying, but with the real object of surprising it. Le Moyne, who di- vined their purpose, rushed among them, seized two Indians, and forced them to march as prisoners into the fort. A similar act of bravery on his part some weeks later produced such effect on the savages that for some time they did not venture to appear in the neighborhood. He resumed the cultivation of his lands ; but the Iroquois renewed their attacks on the colonists in May, 1651, and, collecting some of his men, Le Moyne routed them with great slaughter. In consequence of this ac- tion he was appointed garde magazin, and in 1653 he negotiated a peace with the Iroquois. In 1655 this tribe again attacked the colony, which was saved, owing chiefly to the efforts of Le Moyne. He was captured by these Indians ten years later while he was hunting, after displaying great brav- ery. The savages were about to burn him, but his demeanor at the stake impressed them so much that they released him, and at the end of three months set him at liberty. Francois de Lauzon, to whom sixty leagues of territory had been grant- ed by the royal government, counted Le Moyne among his earliest vassals, and in 1657 conferred on him the amplest seigniorial rights. To his former possessions was added in 1664 the island of St. Ilelene, Round island, and other properties. He took part in the expeditions of Tracy and Courcelles in 1666-'7, and in 1668 Louis XIV., in recognition of his services, ennobled him, con- ferring on him the title of Sieur de Longueuil, to which was added the title of Chateauguay on his acquiring that fief. He afterward took part in several expeditions against the Iroquois, his knowl- edge of the Indian dialects rendering his services of great value to successive governors. He was for a long time captain of Montreal, and was rec- ommended by De La Barre to the French govern- ment for appointment as governor of that place. He had eleven sons, of whom two (see Bienville and Iberville) are noticed elsewhere. — His son, Charles, first Baron de Longueuil. b. in Villemarie, 10 Dec, 1656 ; d. there, 8 June, 1729, was surnamed the " Maccabeus of Montreal" on account of his valor. He served in the French army in Flanders, was made a lieuten- ant, and, on return- ing to Canada in 1683, was made mayor of Montreal, and en- gaged in colonizing his estates, building churches and a stone fort at Longueuil. He commanded a divis- ion of the Canadian militia in the cam- paign against the Iro- quois in 1687, and went with a body of Huron and Abenaki Indians to watch the movements of the English fleet before Quebec in 1690. The same year he was wounded in an action against the British under Sir William Phips and was made governor of Montreal, and baron in 1700, on account of his services to the colony. His dexterity in negotiating with the Onondaga Indians in 1711 saved the trench colony from great dangers, and he commanded the Canadian troops at Chambly in the unsuccessful attempt by the English to surprise Montreal. He became commandant-general of the colony in 1711, was governor of Three Rivers in 1720, and of Montreal again from 1724 till 2 Sept., 1726. He administered the colony for some months in 1725, but his request to be appointed governor of Canada was refused on the ground that he was a native of that province. He was made a chevalier of St. Louis, and persuaded the Iroquois in 1726 to rebuild Fort Niagara, notwithstanding the opposition of Gov. William Burnet, of New York. — His son, Charles, second Baron de Longueuil, b. in Canada, 18 Oct., 1687; d. there. 17 Jan., 1755, entered the army, and was made captain in 1719. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1729, was named major of Montreal in 1733. and received the cross of St. Louis in 1734. He was appointed governor of Montreal in 1749. On the death of the governor-general, De la Jonquiere, in 1752, he administered the government of the colony until the arrival of the Marquis de Mennevilie in August of the same year. During this period his intervention saved