Madeleine d allonne biography for kids
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ROYBON D’ALLONNE, MADELEINE DE, seigneuress; b. c.
The seigneuress Madeleine de Roybon D'Allonne () lost everything she had on her lands at Tonequinion, at Cataraqui.
1646 at Montargis (department of Loiret), daughter of Jacques de Roybon d’Allonne, soldier in the king’s company, then gentleman carver at the court; d. mid-January 1718 at the côte Saint-Martin, near Montreal.
Like many other young ladies of the lesser nobility at that period, Madeleine probably came to New France in search of a husband.
She never married, but it is thanks to the love affair attributed to her by historians that she has passed into history. If there was a woman in René-Robert Cavelier* de La Salle’s life, it is supposed that it was she, because the archives mention her name in close association with the discoverer’s, and because she was the only spinster of her rank to live at Fort Frontenac.
The loan of 2,141 livres that she made to the explorer on 24 Aug. 1681, at Cataracoui, is the first proof of Mlle d’Allonne’s presence in the colony; it is perhaps also an indication of her attac
