Exert from the diary of Jacques Brisson, on royalist immigration to Quebec.
"They floated along the Saint Lawrence River in a rickety ferry, not in the manner they were accustom to. They left the boat looking fairly quesy dressed in fine clothes, a moustache above their lip and with gold belt buckles. Behind them came their servants carrying heavy trunks, having been dragged across the atlantic it's not surprizing they kicked them out. Quebec would never be the same after they came, all 13,000 of them, it became known as the new Versailles. They brought their ideas with them, as nobles came palaces appeared and as the new exiled philosophers appeared so did libraries - the king was staying in the city! They had grand ideas of creating ranchs and mills like in France, but few wanted to risk life and limb to work for their former masters. In months the furniture of the palaces were in makeshift pawnshops that had once been libraries. Whilst Generals talked of bloody victories in the battlefields of Europe as a symbol of the success of the revolution, I viewed the the social upheavals of Quebec as the greatest success of the Revolution. It was only so long before it spread across the water, and when it did I would be ready."
"They floated along the Saint Lawrence River in a rickety ferry, not in the manner they were accustom to. They left the boat looking fairly quesy dressed in fine clothes, a moustache above their lip and with gold belt buckles. Behind them came their servants carrying heavy trunks, having been dragged across the atlantic it's not surprizing they kicked them out. Quebec would never be the same after they came, all 13,000 of them, it became known as the new Versailles. They brought their ideas with them, as nobles came palaces appeared and as the new exiled philosophers appeared so did libraries - the king was staying in the city! They had grand ideas of creating ranchs and mills like in France, but few wanted to risk life and limb to work for their former masters. In months the furniture of the palaces were in makeshift pawnshops that had once been libraries. Whilst Generals talked of bloody victories in the battlefields of Europe as a symbol of the success of the revolution, I viewed the the social upheavals of Quebec as the greatest success of the Revolution. It was only so long before it spread across the water, and when it did I would be ready."