the Order of Saint Louis in 1762. Although the Memoirs often refer to his preference for a military life, his career was undistinguished and it ended here. There are few details of his life thereafter; he apparently visited Scotland in 1779 but seems to have had little contact with his family. The parlous state of French government finances resulted in his pension being reduced in the 1770s; it was stopped completely following the 1789 French Revolution but later restored. While it is generally agreed he died in Paris, the date is uncertain; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests circa 1800. There is no record of him after 1791, which is used by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and other sources. Johnstone reportedly deposited his manuscripts in the Scots College, Paris, including Memoirs of the rebellion in 1745-46, translated into English and published in 1822. While full of complaints about the injustice of the world and often extremely self-centred, they are lively and include the occasional flash of insight. Like many, he disliked Prince Charles but although an admirer of Lord George Murray, he recorded his talents were offset by a quick temper, arrogance and inability to take advice. Other works dealing with his time in Canada were printed in Quebec in 1887; The Campaign of 1760 in Canada and A dialogue in Hades: a parallel of military errors, of which the French and English armies were guilty, during the campaign of 1759, in Canada. References Sources McCann, Jean E (1963) The Organisation of the Jacobite Army (PHD thesis) Edinburgh University, OCLC 646764870 External links L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia - "James Chevalier de Johnstone" “Memoirs of the rebellion in 1745 and 1746″ – media and intelligence in James Johnstone’s autobiography 1719 births 1791 deaths Order of Saint Louis recipients Scottish Jacobites Military personnel from Edinburgh Jacobite military personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 People of New France British people of the French and Indian War French military personnel of the Seven Years' War