{"id":6431,"date":"2026-05-24T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp268347.wpdns.ca\/?page_id=6431"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:34:56","slug":"martine-messier-e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/martine-messier-e","title":{"rendered":"Martine Messier &#8211; E"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6431\" class=\"elementor elementor-6431\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71bf409f e-flex e-con-boxed jltma-glass-effect-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"71bf409f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4157654a jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4157654a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Martine Messier\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70241a28 e-flex e-con-boxed jltma-glass-effect-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"70241a28\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1747c72 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1747c72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_2 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Aunt of Michel and Jacques, our ancestors and sister of Jacques, Martine Messier, wife of Antoine Primot; born at Saint-Denis-le-Thiboult (or le Petit-Bourg), in the diocese of Rouen, in 1607; dead at Montreal some time after <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1672<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" dir=\"ltr\">Primot and his wife were married in France and are mentioned for the first time in 1650 as being at Montreal, although Abb\u00e9 Faillon maintains that they had been there since 1642.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" dir=\"ltr\">Martine is the adoptive mother of Catherine Thierry, daughter of Isabeau\/Elisabeth Messier (sister of Martine) and Guillaume Thierry. On the 28th day of May 1654, at Montreal, Catherine married Charles Le Moyne, Sieur of Longueuil.. They have 14 childreen. Martine Messier seems to have imparted to the famous Le Moyne brothers, her grandsons, the courage and sangfroid which she exhibited on at least one occasion.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" dir=\"ltr\">On 29 July 1652, at twice the distance of a gun shot from the fort of Montreal, Martine was attacked by three Iroquois. Although she was unarmed, she defended herself \u201clike a lioness.\u201d Having suffered several hatchet wounds, she finally fainted; but just as one of the Iroquois grasped her by the head to scalp her, \u201cour Amazon\u201d recovered consciousness, \u201crose more furious than ever and seized the brute so violently in a place which modesty forbids mentioning, that he was barely able to escape.\u201d Her strength failed her and she fainted again, but her assailants fled at the approach of the defenders of the fort who had been aroused by the victim\u2019s cries.<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" dir=\"ltr\">Martine was not dead, as was quickly realized. In a gesture of compassion, one of the settlers who had come to her rescue took it into his head to embrace her. Recovering consciousness, Martine immediately \u201cdealt him a lusty box on the ear.\u201d She explained to the astonished witnesses in her patois: \u201cParmanda, I thought he wanted to kiss me.\u201d This retort caused great laughter, and subsequently Martine was never called by anything but the nickname <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u00ab\u00a0la bonne femme Parmanda\u00a0\u00bb<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5077c6 e-flex e-con-boxed jltma-glass-effect-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a5077c6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f807168 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f807168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Text comes from the volume of :<\/p><p><em><strong>Gilles Messier. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Les Messier et leurs anc\u00eatres : 700 ans d&rsquo;histoire.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martine Messier Aunt of Michel and Jacques, our ancestors and sister of Jacques, Martine Messier, wife of Antoine Primot; 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