The media, which surely loves a horserace, may be giving wall-to-wall coverage of the papal election, but it's
Charlevoix that
links us to the information on how much the Abitibi
papabile Marc Cardinal Ouellet is a true
pur-laine Québecois. His ancestor Réné Ouellet (or Houellet) was born in Paris 1647, emigrated to Québec in 1663 (age 16 therefore, and very likely an
engagé, a hired labourer), married a
fille du roi named Anne Rivet three years later, and fathered eleven children by her and a second wife. The 34,000 Ouellets and Ouellettes in Québec are his descendants.