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I7n8 1652, Cloutier received a seigneury from Governor Jean de Lauzon at Château-Richer. W
Zacharie Cloutier died in 1677, the colony reached 9,000 inhabitants.
“By 22 July 1634, master-carpenter Zacharie Cloutier and master-mason Jean Guyon wer
work on construction of a manor house for their lord as well as the parish church and
Louis in Quebec.”Fort Saint-Louis was the third fort built by the French at this important
top of a cliff overlooking the lower part of Quebec City. You can read more about the for
Canadian Encyclopedia.
In February of 1637 Cloutier took possession of the land grant given him by Giffard and
Clousterie. Benoît Grenier of the History department, Université de Sherbrooke, in an o
at the Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America about Beauport, explai
Cloutier and Guyon received “rear fiefs” which are “a sort of fiefdom-within-a-fiefdom
is a seigneurial lord, but ranks below the owner of the seigneurial fiefdom, to who
fealty and homage.”

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