- Louis Bazil
Louis Bazil (
1695 -February 20 ,1752 ) was a Frenchmerchant andmilitia officer inNew France .Bazil traded between his home in
Quebec andLa Rochelle , as well asMartinique and Île Royale. He was well-connected and in 1736 was granted a concession to administer a sealing station inLabrador . Having no capital of his own, he formed a company withFrançois Havy , Jean Lefebvre andLouis Fornel , but the enterprise was a failure and Bazil, unable to pay his share of the company's debts, lost his consession to his partners.Throughout the 1740s he was hounded by creditors, but he escaped poverty when his connections secured him a writership at Domaine d’Occident. Even so, he needed to lease a portion of his home for use as a tavern in order to make ends meet.
When he died, his house was sold to pay his debtors.
References
* Dale Miquelon, [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=1202 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"] , 2000
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