Jacques-Hippolyte Leber de Senneville
Jacques-Hippolyte Leber, 15 years of age, equerry, is the son of Joseph-Hippolyte Leber de Senneville, lieutenant and major general in MontrĂ©al, and of Anne-Marguerite Soumande. He saw the fire from his grandmother’s house, on rue Capitale, but he can only repeat the rumours regarding the origin of the disaster.