Topic
The seigneury
4 articles
This topic belongs to the History of the seigneury section. All of History of the seigneury
In this chapter, we present the broad outlines of the history of the Seigneury,
as well as articles on the life of the seigneur, his difficulties, his accomplishments.
The “Site of the Manor” describes its various owners since the original concession.
The “domaine de Lapérade” [the Lapérade estate] recalls the housing development project in the village of Saint-Pierre, in 1844.
In this topic
Domaine de LapéradeIn 1844, deep in financial trouble, François Baby had Pierre-Louis Morin lay out seventeen arpents as 99 building lots; in nine years only a dozen were granted.- Historical Sketch of the Lévrard-Becquet SeigneuryFrom the 1672 grant to Romain Becquet to the abolition of 1854: the Lévrards, the Massons ordered out in 1708, the Babys and their manor, and where the names Sainte-Sophie and Sainte-Cécile came from.
The Manoir SiteThe land granted in 1722 to Joseph Charais, and the chain of owners that followed: the notarial record places the building of the Manoir Baby-Méthot between 1817 and 1822, by François Baby the younger.- Not an Easy Thing, Being a Seigneur…The mill Louis Lévrard had built in 1717 on lot 1 of the seigneury brought him a complaint from Massicot and Carignan, intendant Bégon’s ruling and, with no inhabitants keeping hearth and home, over 15,000 livres lost.