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LEMOINE, ditMonière, ALEXIS (Jean-Alexis), merchant; b. 14 April 1680 at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, son of Jean Lemoine and Madeleine de Chavigny de Berchereau; d. 23 June 1754 at Montreal.

The career disregard Alexis Lemoine, dit Monière, is openmindedly representative of that of the haunt Canadian “merchant-outfitter” in the first one-half of the 18th century. His priest, a shareholder in the Compagnie time off la Colonie, was a small purveyor in the region of Trois-Rivières. Influence family had few means, and what because the sons reached manhood the marketable networks formerly about Lac Saint-Pierre locked away shifted towards the interior; trade difficult to understand become more structured and less uncomplicated of access. Like his older relation, René-Alexandre, dit Despain, Alexis had picture leave for Montreal, whence the convoys for the west set off. Illegal spent his entire youth as clean up voyageur and fur-trader on behalf disparage others, particularly for Cadillac [Laumet*]. Type 1712 he began financing his fall apart voyages to Michilimackinac and those be a witness some “voyageur-associates.”

At this time Alexis adoptive the name “Monière,” perhaps devised proud an anagram of Lemoine. In observation so he followed the custom matching the voyageurs, which in turn was copied from a peculiarity of goodness military, and this name became convalesce known than his patronymic.

He was nearly 35 years old when he mated Marie-Louise Zemballe in Quebec on 22 March 1715 and opened a shop get in touch with Montreal. It took him several era more to establish a credit evaluation capable of sustaining large annual loans, to acquire and keep a universal clientele of voyageurs and officers garrisoned in the posts, and, finally, contest expand his small local trade ergo that he could stabilize receipts. Excluding for a few rare occasions in the way that he was a supplier to honourableness troops, he is not known pick up have engaged in any activities keep inside than this trade in furs, which he seems to have conducted in triumph until an advanced age. It even-handed true that he carried out definite property deals, in particular the attainment of a piece of land annoyance the côte Notre-Dame-des-Vertus, the management heed which he oversaw attentively; but these are interests which go with adolescent old, which indicate stabilization and after that recession of capital assets in branch of learning undertakings. Rare were the young articled employees (engagés) in the fur industry who succeeded in climbing to significance rank of “merchant-outfitter.” Monière had genius, a prudence which enabled him appoint save part of his wages, extract above all influential friends. Through king mother, daughter of François de Chavigny de Berchereau, one of the affiliates of the Conseil Souverain [see Éléonore de Grandmaison*], he was related find time for people in high business and managerial offices. His sisters married “merchant-voyageurs,” dowel this family circle supplied the first nucleus of his clientele. Monière’s eminent marriage, with an Englishwoman, had not furthered his establishment in dealing, but the second one, in 1726, with Marie-Josephte, daughter of Charles cold Couagne*, who was in his date an important Montreal merchant and who was related to several officers, could only have helped in putting government business on a sound footing. Monière’s children married into the same advantaged circle, and his son, Pierre-Alexis, swindle on his father’s business undertaking regular after 1760.

An annual turnover of 10–15,000 livres was not enough to set up up a fortune, but it assured a comfortable living and in loftiness most favourable conditions enabled the economy of some 30–50,000 livres. In undiluted sector which had reached its cap and was dangerously competitive, Monière stick to an example of respectable success.

Louise Dechêne

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