[1474] The Parkman MSS. contain letters of Bougainville dated July 25, 1758; Paris, Dec. 22, Versailles, Dec. 29; Paris, Jan. 16, 1759; Versailles, Jan. 28, Feb. 1, 16; Bordeaux, March 5; Paris, Dec. 10.
[1475] Some letters of Doreil on his Paris mission (1760) are among the Parkman MSS.
[1476] The disheartening began early, as shown by Doreil’s letter of Aug. 31, 1758 (N. Y. Col. Docs., 828), and Montcalm, addressing Belle Isle in the spring (Apr. 12, 1759), had to depict but a sorry outlook. (Ibid., x. 960.)
[1477] Particularly (p. 857) in the abstracts of the despatches in the war office, complaining of Vaudreuil.
[1478] Sabin, xii. 47,556. Cf. the address of J. M. Lemoine, Glimpses of Quebec, 1749-1759, made in Dec., 1879, and printed in the Transactions of the Lit. and Hist. Soc., 1879-80; Martin’s De Montcalm en Canada, ch. 9; and Viscount Bury’s Exodus of the Western Nations (vol. ii. ch. 9), who seems to have used French documentary sources.
[1479] N. Y. ed., ii. ch. 6 and 7.
[1480] Rule and Misrule of the English in America, N. Y., 1851, p. 209.
[1481] Vol. ii. ch. 1.
[1482] New York, 1882, p. 51.
[1483] See his introduction; also Part ii. p. 59. Various characteristics of French colonization in Canada are developed by Rameau in the Revue Canadienne: e. g., “La race française en Canada” (x. 296); “L’administration de la justice sous la domination française” (xvi. 105); “La langue française en Canada” (new ser., i. 259); “Immigration et colonisation sous la domination française” (iv. 593).