LOUISE GRISARD  (1633-1698)

         Louise Grisard was born in 1634 in Chemiré-en-Charnie, arrondissement et évêché Le Mans, Maine, France.

         She married Jean Auger dit Le Baron in France, approximately 1650, several years before immigrating to “Nouvelle France.” They arrived as a young couple with a small child “Louis” in hand.

         They spent their life in Montréal, raising four sons and one daughter. Today, the family name of Auger is found all over the province of Québec.

         Marie-Louise drowned in a stream near their house on November 5, 1698, one year after the death of Jean. They buried her the next day near her husband, at a young age of sixty-five.​ Her death registration says "On the six of November 1698, the body of Louise Grisard was found in a small stream nearby her home.