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Scope and Contents Beaugier knows that Perché is genuine when he interests himself in someone and is quite certain that Perché wants to know what has become of Beaugier. Rousselon charged Beaugier to tell him what is going on here; Beaugier promised, but on deliberation, he believed it a duty to keep silent in order not to be mistaken by a superior for a spy on a confrere. There are some things so sad that it is better to throw a veil over them. Beaugier will content himself with speaking only in general; the...

Scope and Contents About two weeks ago, they were visited by one of the Jesuit? Brothers of Grand Coteau who brought Beaugier the holy oils. This Brother told him that Rousselon had a thick letter from Europe addressed to Beaugier. He has asked for it four times in vain at Opelousas. He asks Rousselon not to leave him waiting any longer for this letter which perhaps is important. He also asks Rousselon to reply to his first letter. The people of Opelousas are beginning to wonder about Rousselon's long silence...

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Sister asks for news of her brother, Father Jean Mathieu Beaugier at Ville Platte. She and her mother have had no news of him for about 8 months. :: VI-1-l A.L.A. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Beaulieu sends New Year's greetings. Although Leray is no longer Bishop of Natchitoches, Beaulieu hopes he will receive news from one who was beneath his crozier. Since Beaulieu's return he sees that one of his best friends, Oscar Chopin, has died. He was a benefactor of the church. Sickness has disappeared with the cold weather; the normal health of his people leaves much to be desired. He has tried to organize a temperance society but he is preaching in the desert. May the new year see...

Scope and Contents Last evening Beaulieu sought the hospitality of his colleague at Isle Brevélle ?, Father Adolphe Dupre ?, as he had not gone to confession for some time. Next Thursday he is to marry a young man whom he has seen grow up, having taken his meals with his mother for 9 years. The mother wants Beaulieu to dine with them on that day. He replied that he could not as it was against the rules of the diocese. He would rather dine at home but perhaps his presence might be useful as the young man may be...

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Permission for the negress Poline to go to have her child baptized, born July 12, 1843. :: V-5-a A. Note S. French 2pp. 16mo.

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A receipted bill for 376 francs for a chalice and for gold and silver plating. Beaumont is the successor of Mr. Pasquier :: V-5-h Bill French 1p. 4to.

Scope and Contents Born and educated in the Unitarian creed, Beaumont has with the last few years become a convert to Catholic truth. She is the only one of her race and blood that in Catholic and she is looked upon as almost demented and to have been the prey of a wicked Church. Born and reared in affluence she found herself none 10 years ago greatly reduced in means and 6 years ago was left a widow with nine children only one of whom was married. She has lived to see 3 daughters settled and their husbands...

Scope and Contents Blanc's letter of May 25 is at hand. She cannot tell the thanks she feels for his interest. Her whole life has been a protest against Catholic truth but God has irradiated the approaching twilight of her life with grace and light which causes a remorse not only for her own loss but for the instilling of Protestantism in to the minds of her children. Beaumont has determined to leave her home here to seek instruction amid Catholic association. She must rely upon her own efforts, to follow her...

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Mr. Gerard will give Rousselon the bottles for the Holy Oils. Will Rousselon fill them and give them back to him. P.S. Rousselon is to tell the Bishop that it is useless to write to Beauprez about the Delpeuch affair. :: V-4-n A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.

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Louis Francis Chenevert and Jeanne Eulodie Samson, first cousins, ask for a dispensation from relationship. P.S. In the distressing state in which non-naturalized pastors find themselves since the latest law on marriages, and Beauprez among them in a parish where civil marriage is almost unknown, he asks Blanc to give him the faculty to dispense from second degree relationship in an urgent case. :: V-4-o A.L.S. 3pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Beauprez desires his personal effects to be disposed of as follows: 1. $100 to St. Rose Asylum . 2. $100 for the chapel in the burying ground. 3. $100 for Masses for his soul and a monument in the chapel. 4. The kitchen furniture and what he expended in the house to St. Gall's Church . 5. His vestments to St. Gall's. 6. $31 received from Father Martin Kundig for Andrew McNeely of Troy. 7. $50 on deposit for Mrs. Pauline Lebere. 8. 10 sovereigns, less $1 ½ for Patrick Delany . 9. The balance...

Scope and Contents Since he cannot talk with Blanc in person before leaving next Tuesday, Beauprez leaves his will with Father Rousselon. Father James Ignatius Mullon today forbade him to say Mass in his church where he has been accustomed to say it. Mullon said it was because of reports he had heard of Beauprez; Beauprez thinks it is revenge. If his passage was not paid, Beauprez would wait for Blanc to explain it. It all comes from certain priests who have discredited him. He has been telling Blanc so for...

Scope and Contents Beauprez waited several days to reply to Blanc's letter because he wanted to see Michael Olinde for an explanation. Beauprez told Olinde that he had particular reasons for refusing permission for Father Jean Martin to marry his son. Martin came several times to perform marriages here, contrary to the rules of the diocese. Beauprez sees by Blanc's letter that Olinde said his son would be married by a judge. It is almost a custom here to be married by a judge; this is one of the reasons...

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Beauprez has just received Blanc's letter of the 7th in which Blanc informs him that his replacement is coming on May 1. Blanc will recall that Beauprez wrote 3 or 4 months ago that he planned to leave June 1, as arranged with his trustees, and that he had several important affairs to attend to. He thinks a month more or less will not make much difference to his successor and hopes Blanc will do him this favor. :: V-5-e A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Three weeks ago they had an election of trustees. There were 140 or more voters. The Conservatives won over the Reform party. The new trustees are John Laurans and Charles Poydras for Fausse Riviere, Marcellin Sicard and John Baptist Bergeron for L'ile and Valery Ledoux and Gustave Delamare . They met last Sunday. Sicard was absent; Ledoux is no longer president. They decided to reduce the pastor's salary and the sacristan's and the fees by 20 per cent. Beauprez's salary is $800, the...

Scope and Contents Beauprez has waited for a reply to his letter of the 2nd. Here is what it contained. The new trustees, elected by a plot, decided to reduce the salary of the pastor, sacristan, and fees by 20 percent. They reduced the sacristan only 12½ percent. Beauprez lists here the fees for burials. His salary is reduced to $800 and the church has never had more money in the treasury, about $1600 and no debts. Marcellin Sicard, one of the trustees, can give Blanc the news. Since he has had two illnesses...

Scope and Contents Beauprez received Blanc's letter of the 12th. He sees that Blanc wishes him to take the $800 salary this year in view of the expenditures on the two churches. He believes they have overestimated the expenditures. A fixed salary of $600 plus the fees will scarcely give him $800. At Donaldsonville and St. Martin they give almost half of burials and services to the pastor. It would be much better to keep the usual salary of $1000. He sees that they want to vex him because he interfered with the...

Scope and Contents Beauprez has been waiting for two weeks for a reply to his letter. He supposes that as Blanc has sided with the trustees, as he has learned, he thought it useless to reply. Blanc has consented to having Beauprez's salary reduced to $800 because of expenses this year. Blanc would never have consented to anything like that at the Cathedral or for any other pastor. The repairs on the church at Pointe Coupée are not urgent. How foolish to buy candlesticks for an altar in no state to receive...

Scope and Contents Beauprez received Blanc's letter which hurt him very much. He sees to his great astonishment that Blanc has taken his complaints for impertinence and insult. As soon as the trustees cut his salary Beauprez informed Blanc and observed that this restitution was taken for revenge. If he was so fond of those 200 piastres as Blanc says, he would not have taken the affair to Blanc; he would have tried to come to terms with the trustees. He was surprised when he learned that in two weeks Blanc...

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Terence Samson, Jr . and Emelie Samson ask for a dispensation for the reasons gives when Beauprez asked for the same dispensation in the same family. :: V-4-o A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents Beauprez ratified the marriage of Narcise Carmouche, Jr . and Adeline Brassaux after a dispensation for relationship. Will Blanc tell Mr. Chanet that Beauprez has had a sacristan since three months ago and does not need him. At the last meeting of the trustees they named a committee to buy six candlesticks for Pointe Coupée like those at Baton Rouge for $60 or $70. Beauprez would like to know if there are any in New Orleans; also a small ciborium for the chapel at Fausse Rivière :: V-5-b...

Scope and Contents Beauprez received Blanc's letter from which he learned that his own had neither signature nor closing. He had left it unfinished because he was trying to remember to ask permission to erect the stations of the cross in the chapel of Fausse Rivière . Last winter Beauprez directed all his efforts to having the law for the celebration of marriages amended; it seems that almost all the other priests have done nothing; he will speak to them again. Last spring Beauprez saw the candlesticks Mr....

Scope and Contents Although ill, Beauprez answers Blanc's letter of October 7 … For complete calendar see original of 10 cards. Cross references:1. Bishop Anthony Blanc 2. Father Joseph Napoleon Perché 3. John Laurant 4. Father John Baptist Blanc 5. West Baton Rouge, Louisiana 6. Plaines, Louisiana 7. Father Joseph N. Brogard 8. Father Jean Martin 9. Jules Chitz 10. Phelomene Sicard 11. Marcellin Sicard 12. Francois Bineaud 13. Terence Samson 14. Terencine Samson 15. Julia Labry 16. Jean Pierre Bergeron 17....

Scope and Contents Beauprez received Blanc's letter of October 20 in which Blanc complains of his strong language in his last letter. Blanc says "But I believe it was on your responsibility that the objects were placed in the church." Beauprez believes that Blanc should not give an opinion merely on reports. Since the statutes of the diocesan synod is their rule, is not Father Jean? Martin obliged to share with Beauprez according to Statute 44? About Francois Bineaud, Blanc believes that Beauprez is also...

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Rousselon is to enter a year's subscription to the Propagateur Catholique for A. Belzons and six months for Narcisse Beauvais. He is also to send Beauprez all the numbers which have appeared as he lacks 2 numbers. Has Rousselon found any of Beauprez's clothes which he lost on the "Missouri"? :: V-4-n A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.

Scope and Contents In answer to Blanc's circular of July 18, these are the stations in La Fayette parish: 1. Cote Gelee attended once a month; 2. One in the offing of Cote Gelee the abandoned Valgo wharf once a month; 3. Perry's Bridgetown? 8 times a year; here they are about to build a chapel; 4. Carencrow, once every two months; 5. Bayou Queue Tortue six times a year; 6. One at Mentou River, 3 times a year; 7. One below the Bayou, once every two months. ` The nearest post office is Vermillionville Attakapas,...

Scope and Contents Beauprez received Blanc's letter of August 29 reproaching him for lodging his servant and his sacristan under the same roof. His old, pious Irish sacristan has just left for the College at Grand Coteau because he did not get paid. Beauprez doubts that the church he planned will ever be built. Four months ago they were to submit the church accounts for examination and have never done it; this caused the resignation of Moses Hebert, president. Blanc knows the troubles LaFayette has been...

Scope and Contents Beauprez sees from Blanc's letter that Blanc understood that Beauprez had taken Blanc's observations as reproaches. On the contrary Beauprez took them as wise advice. It was not so much Beauprez as Father F. Charles Boutelou de St. Aubin who has been talking about an exchange with him. It is only since the unfortunate affair of the Negroes that he listened to St. Aubin's pleas. Beauprez was disgusted with New Iberia, seeing Father Hercule Brassac performing marriages at his door and hearing...

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Marriage certificate of Jean Laurans and Melanie Labry. On March 28, 1837, Father Jean Martin, pastor, married Laurans, a native of France, son of the late Guillaume Laurans and Anne Cortez and Melanie, the daughter of Alexandre Labr y and Melanie Vignes . The witnesses were Alexandre Labry, William Laurans, Jules Tanaret, and Hyacinte Decou. Beauprez states that this is a true copy. :: V-4-n A.D.S. French 2pp. folio