-3- . , nor sufficient clothing to protect themselves by day or night. Hany of the children are so scantily clad that when I enter the house they flee for veT^y shame. All are not reduced to this extremity* but almost all are in need....-* Hb remained there until the autunn o*f 1753 when he was placed on board the ship Duke William with a large number of his parishioners to be taken prisoners to England . The angry seas proved too much for this bulging vessel, however, and she went to the bottom carrying over 3C0 souls with her. All that survived were Father Girard, the captain, some of the crew and four Acadians. The latter were chiefly from St. Paul's, Point Prim . The parish registers were also lost,*1 Records show that Father Girard was at Brest on January 2k, 1?59, and that from there he was tai<en to La Rochelle. Mext he became chac- lain at the J-aanastery of Notre Farce de Jouarre. Jouarrs is a small town on the River i-Jarae, a few wiles east of Paris, 'j.'ije monastery there was one of the greatest in France. It was founded in 630 during the reign of King ragobert the First and was of royal foundation. The monastery continues to the present day. At the time of the Revolution in 1792, the nuns were driven out, but the abbey was restored by Cardinal Ifesche, uncle of Napoleon, in I837. 3h 1393 the nuns were exiled, and it was only in 1$19 that they uere allowed to return. Father Girard was chaplain here from lay 7» 17&>, to September, 1?30. It is not known when be died. Without a doubt, the apostolic record ^ J. C. JtecMllan , The Catholic Church on ?• E. I ., Vol. I, pp. 27-28« ^ Blanchard. od. cit.