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From: Thibaud Taudin Chabot <>
Subject: Re: Notary Weddings
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:56:20 +0100


At 14:26 02-04-96 -0500, CarolAnn7 <>wrote:
>The tradition of using notarial contracts for marriages as well as
>numerous other things, was brought over to Quebec from France. You can
>thank Napoleon for that, as that is the way they still do things in
>Quebec. Many times you read, "a la mode de Paris", in a contract written
>up by a notary.
>

Well, I now that they did that already in 1661: Mathurin Chabot married
Marie Mesange on November 17, 1661 . Their marriagecontract was drawn up by
notary Audouant in Quebec on November 3, 1661.
Long before Napoleon !!
Thibaud Taudin-Chabot <>

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