and they were brought up by their maternal grandparents after their parents died in 1698, Louise-Thérèse Renaud d’Avène des Méloizes (1690-1759), became La Soeur de la Sainte-Vierge at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Marie-Thérèse Renaud d’Avène des Méloizes (1692-1711), became La Soeur de Saint-Gabriel at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Marie-Françoise Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes (1693-1723). In 1711, at Quebec City, she married Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière. They were the parents of Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière. Marie-Jeanne Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes (1694-1766). Educated by the Ursulines of Quebec. In 1711, with a dowry of 10,000 Livres, her grandfather arranged for her to marry Jean-Francois Martin de Lino de Chalmette, Attorney General of New France. She refused the marriage and Chalmette instead married her uncle's sister (and later her aunt) Angelique Chariter de Lotbinière (1692-1772), the following year. Marie-Jeanne died unmarried at Quebec. Nicholas-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes (1696-1743), Comte des Meloizes and Chevalier de St Louis. In 1722, he married Angelique Chartier de Lotbinière (1692-1772), daughter of René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière and the sister of his brother-in-law, Eustache. Their son, Nicolas Renaud d'Avene des Meloizes-Fresnoy (1729-1803), sold the Seigneury of Neuville for 45,000 Livres and moved to France where he became the Marquis de Fresnoy through his marriage to the heiress Agathe-Louise de Fresnoy, a descendant of Gaspard II de Coligny, at Château de Fresnoy. Their daughter, Angelique-Genevieve d'Avene des Meloizes (1722-1779) is the subject of Nadine Grelet's book, La Belle Angelique (2003) and one of the two central figures in The Golden Dog (1873). She was married to Michel-Jean-Hugues de Pean, but was better known for her affair with François Bigot. Catherine-Madeleine Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes (1697-1725), was a society beauty who appears in William Kirby's book, The Golden Dog with her niece, Angelique-Genevieve d'Avene des Meloizes. She died unmarried. References 1655 births 1699 deaths French people of the French and Indian War Canadian nobility (French)