Pierre Couc dit Lefebvre

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Pierre was born in 1627 in Cognac, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France , the son of Nicolas Couc dit Lafleur and Élisabeth Templair.

He died in 1690 in Saint-François-du-Lac, Nicolet-Yamaska QC .

His wife was Marie Mite8ameg8k8e-Miteouamigouhoué, who he married on 16 APR 1657 in Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Mauricie QC . Their ten known children were Louis (1659-1709), Marie-Angélique (1662-1750), Marie (1663-?), Marguerite Josette (1664-?), Élisabeth (1667-?), Madeleine (1669-?), Jean-Baptiste (1673-?), Pierre (?-?), Pierre (?-?) and Jeanne (?-?).

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Note 1

Soldat de Carignan, Cie de Froment

Interprète de langue Algonquine. Coureur des bois surnommé "Fleur-de-Cognac".

Nommé aussi Lafleur.

Over the next six years, two more children were born in the Couc family: Marie Madeleine and a son Jean. During this time, the atmosphere in Cap-de-la-Madeleine had begun to change dramatically. With the departure of the Jesuits in 1666, the Cap became contaminated by the illegal traffic of alcohol. Pierre's friend Pierre Boucher moved south, closer to Montréal. The change in atmosphere undoubtedly prompted Pierre and Marie to move their family to the seignory of Jean Crevier, in the Île de Fort, which would eventually be known as St-François-du-Lac. Jean Crevier had begun to distribute land grants in the fall of 1673. Marie must have been very proud of her husband, as one of the first five signers of a contract. Crevier had begun to clear the land, had built a village mill and had established justice for this seignory. There was a poll tax system where a person paid for a right to farm and obtained three to five arpents in frontage by thirty to forty in depth. The only charge was to leave the fourteenth milling as grinding costs. There was no doubt that these favorable conditions prompted Pierre and Marie to decide to move their home to the other side of the river. Because of his revenues from land at Trois-Rivières and Cap-de-la-Madeleine, the former soldier-peasant became a well-to-do land owner in St-François-du-Lac. By the work of his hands during fifteen years, Pierre Couc had the rightto show justifiable pride in his home and sacred land.

In the fall of 1679, his daughter Jeanne was assaulted and killed by Jean Rattier. Also taking part in the assault were Jean Crevier and his servant Pierre Gilbert. No-one was executed for this murder. Pierre was not allowed to accuse Jean Crevier.