by Danielle Duval LeMyre
dlemyre@yahoo.com
At one place Nicolas could have been the one referred to as "sieur de la Motte", by the Jesuits in their "Relations", for they gave many code names to the people about whom they wrote.
Nicolas grand-parents, Nicholas Marsolett and Laurence Griffon, daughter of Jacques Griffon who died before 1599, had 4 children: Nicolas, Jeanne, Marie and Roulant Marsolett.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon was a French Author & Mystic who was responsible for introducing the QUIETISM movement, which started a virulent confrontation between FENELON, who espoused her views, and BOSSUET who refuted them.
FÉNÉLON ----------- BOSSUET
Jeanne Bouvier de la Motte Guyon would have known about Canada tru her relationship with Fenelon, since his brother was in Canada, as is related by Marguerite Bourgeoys ( April 17 1620 - January 12 1700) when she mentions him in connection with her 1670-72 trip to France when Marguerite writes: "They told me I needed to go to France for Patent Letters (from the King of France, for her new congregation) and to bring back a few girls (which were to be married and needed a chaperon until they would find husbands). I received several certificates, both from the Quebec and Montreal Seminaries, went to Quebec, where I felt ill and spent a few days at the hospital. When they told me it was time to sail I asked Monsieur de Fenelon to give permission to his servant to take a box of my things aboard the ship, which he promises. I went to the benediction of the Saint Sacrement and to get blessed by the Archbishop. When I return the servant assures me all has been done and is on board. It is getting dark and I look for my things but cannot find them. Night comes. In the morning I still cannot find anything. Monsieur de Fenelon wants to give me a coin of forty sols to go back to Quebec for my things, but we are near sailing time, so instead I write to M. Dupuy, major of Montreal, who happens to be in Quebec city, requesting him, if he finds my things, to send me my papers to France and to return my box to Montreal"
Marguerite BOURGEOYS
Jeanne's writings were undermining both the Catholic Church's and King Louis XIV's influence. The Chateau de Versailles was finished by Louis XIV, who kept a tight grasp on what was happening at Court and he did not have an other choice than to have Madame Guyon confined in a Convent when Rome interfered in the matters.
Eventually, Madame de Maintenon who became the second wife of the King because he trusted her so much, had her released.
See: Marston's Translation of her " Spiritual Torrents "
and Mason's " Fenelon and Madame Guyon "
Columbia Encyclopedia,
P.F. Collier, N.Y. 1941
www.bartleby.com/65
Petit Larousse,
Pierre Larousse, Paris, 1952.
www.larousse.fr
Les Relations des Jesuites,
Années 1626-28
Click here for the ENGLISH text of
the: "Relations des Jésuites" 1610-1791
Les écrits de Mere Bourgeoys
by Soeur St-Damase-de-Rome, c.n.d.
Montréal, 1964.
UQAM Source = Héraldique Québec at
www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/HQ/Biblio.html