ABSTRACT
Mde machault, Governor-General of the. Islands, had taken a certain Abbé Signier to be his chaplain at Fort Royale, Martinique, after the affair with the English in 1703. This abbé had been six years in the Islands, and I had met him when he was the tutor of M. de Jorna's children on the windward side of Martinique. He had then become almoner for “les Religieux de la Charité” in Guadeloupe, and had saved up a considerable sum of money in these two positions. When the English attacked Guadeloupe, he took care not to risk himself like the rest of us priests by helping the sick and wounded, but increased his savings by going to the windward side of the island, and celebrating a marriage between two Calvinists.
