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  Researching the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
  Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada

The Administration Of Justice At The Fortress Of Louisbourg (1713-1758)

1743
 

• Procédure criminelle instruite à la requête de Joseph Felix Chesnay, huissier au conseil supérieur et au Bailliage de Louisbourg, contre Pierre Ferret, navigateur. 7 p. 24 f. 1743, septembre G2 198 Dossier 176 H J 31 Archives Nationales, Section Outre-Mer, G2, Volume 198

• Registre pour servir à l'enregistrement des sentences rendues au Bailliage royal de Louisbourg, pour sentences rendues en matière criminelle. 1734-1745. 44 folios. G2 196 Liasse No. 122 H J 31 Archives Nationales, Section Outre-Mer, G2, Volume 196, September 9, 1743 (September 2 - september 20, 1743)

Sentence

•  Found guilty 

• 3 livres to King 

• 50 livres to poor 

• 100 livres to plaintiff

Complaint of "crime d'excess commis par sa personne et injuries proferies entre luy"

Julien Fizel ran a respectable inn ... It seems some ships' captains had taken a dislike to a boarder there since he consorted with local law enforcement agents. They began to taunt him and he took a pot off a table; threatening to throw it at them if they didn't leave him alone. The boarder was taken upstairs under duress but soon came running down the stairs and a scuffle broke out in which the boarder threatened to flatten his assailants "like a cookie". Poor M. Fizel who was being shaved at the time, and his young son, who was trying to sleep upstairs, were disturbed by the whole event. The neighbours must have buzzed with the news for days. [R. J. Morgan, Gossips' Tour of Louisbourg, Unpublished Report H F 30 (Fortress of Louisbourg, July, 1975), p. 7]

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