But the most curious French evidence respecting the siege is the
_Lettre d'un Habitant de Louisbourg contenant une Relation exacte &
circonstanciee de la Prise de l'Isle-Royale par les Anglois. A Quebec, chez
Guillaume le Sincere, a l'Image de la Verite_, 1745. This little work,
of eighty-one printed pages, is extremely rare. I could study it only by
having a _literatim_ transcript made from the copy in the Bibliotheque
Nationale, as it was not in the British Museum. It bears the signature B.
L. N., and is dated _a ... ce 28 Aout, 1745._ The imprint of Quebec,
etc., is certainly a mask, the book having no doubt been printed in France.
It severely criticises Duchambon, and makes him mainly answerable for the
disaster.
For French views of the siege of Louisbourg, _see_ Appendix B.]
CHAPTER XXI.
1745-1747.
DUC D'ANVILLE.
LOUISBOURG AFTER THE CONQUEST.--MUTINY.--PESTILENCE.--STEPHEN
WILLIAMS.--HIS DIARY.--SCHEME OF CONQUERING CANADA.--NEWCASTLE'S
PROMISES.--ALARM IN CANADA.--PROMISES BROKEN.--PLAN AGAINST CROWN
POINT.--STARTLING NEWS.--D'ANVILLE'S FLEET.--LOUISBOURG TO BE
AVENGED.
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