Il fut le compagnon de Jean-Marie Cottreau.

C'est lui qui a annoncé à la soeur de Jean-Marie (701488), Jeanne Cottreau, que son frère avit été fait prisonnier par les anglais et amené à Halifax.

Puis comment il s'était évadé.

In 1793, he was fishing with Jean-Marie Cottreau, off Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

At that time,France was at war with England.

He and Jean-Marie were captured on the high seas with others, and taken to Halifax as prisoners.

They escaped during the night, reached Sambro, stole a rowboat, and from cove to cove.

They arrived in southern Nova Scotia, where, they had been told, there were French people.

They were both originally from the same place, in Normandy.