Sieur de Beaulieu was a nobleman who entered the fur trade in
the early French period, and was one of the voyageurs who
accompanied Antoine Lamothe-Cadillac to establish the first
permanent settlement at Le Detroit on July 24, 1701. Plaques and
statues in downtown Detroit celebrate the event, and the French-
Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan has photographs of those
statues on their website. On their site the Society also lists
the names of the French noblemen and informs us that the convoy
also included fifty French soldiers and some passengers:
"Chacornac, baron de Jaonnes; Pierre Dugue, sieur de Boisbriant;
Antoine Lamothe, fils [brother]; Alphonse Tonty, baron de
Paludy; a Recollet priest, and Francois Vaillant de Gueslis,
S.J." Images of these statues, and names of the
gentlemen/voyageurs, are online at
http://fchsm.habitant.org/plaque.html However, Sieur de
Beaulieu's actual name is Louis Chauvin, sieur de Beaulieu, and
descendents of this man have told me that in the years I am
searching for Beaulie