Deposition of Françoise Léveillé dit La Bouteille, 21 April 1734.

The year Seventeen hundred thirty-four The twenty first Of April at two in the afternoon We Pierre Raimbault King's counsellor.

Interrogated as to her name, Surname, age, status And Residence.

Stated to be named francoise Leveillé Dit La Bouteille, aged twenty-Five years, wife of the man named St. Pierre, Carter, residing at the house of the widow Lapierre, Rüe St Jacques In This city.

Interrogated to Tell us If she did

Not help in the Salvaging at the Time of the Fire on the ten^th of this month And In which house.

Stated that she assisted in the Salvaging from the Fire at the Apothecary of the Sisters of the hotel Dieu, from the time of the Onset of the Fire Until nine in the evening.

Interrogated as to whether She Entered Other houses during the said Fire and at times Left The yards and Gardens of the said Autel Dieu.

Stated that she did not Enter at all Into Other houses And Left the said hotel Dieu, and proceeded to Rue de la Sabloniere [rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste] where She sighted Us, and Injured Her foot on a Nail from a plank from the roof of a house being Disposed of to Stop the course of the fire, And having found a pair of Slippers In the Street, the Said Cabanac de St Georges, seeing Her Injured And bare feet, told her to take the Said slippers, which she put

on her feet; that a sister of the Congregation who saw her Injured, Asked of the persons who Were in the Street, where she who is Responding Was, to Give Her a pair of shoes.

Interrogated to state if She did not then wish to Exchange the Said pair of new slippers for an old pair.

Stated that she wished to Exchange Them with the wife of Laurent as [they?] Were too tight, And that the slippers were Not new the Leather at the heel being torn from wear.

Interrogated as to whether or Not she had been in the Company of the wife of Lapierre.

Stated that the said Wife of Lapierre Walked with her To the corner of the house of the said de Rupallais All the while telling her of her Fear for her husband who was working at Salvaging

from the fire at the hospital, And that she didn't see her Carry Anything either; and that she [can?] Reply that The husband Of the said Lapierre Ran after His wife to Get his Hat that Had fallen And that [she] had Picked Up.

A reading to her done of the Present Interrogation she stated that Her Responses Contain truth and persisted on it And Declared to not Know how to sign, as requested.

[signed]P. Raimbault

[signed] C. Porlier
clerk

To be Communicated to the King's prosecutor. Dated at Montréal on the said Day And year.

[signed]P. Raimbault

Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Montréal, Vols associés à l’incendie du mois d’avril 1734, TL 4 S1, 4137, Juridiction royale de Montréal, Deposition of Françoise Léveillé dit La Bouteille, April 21, 1734.

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