HACHÉ-GALLANT, MICHEL (the name was originally Larché; the forms
Haché, dit Gallant, Galan, and Galand also appear), settler in
Acadia and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), founder of the
Haché and the Gallant families of the Maritimes; b. c. 1663, d.
1737. Michel Haché-Gallant’s origins are obscure. He is probably
the son of Pierre Larché, originally of the parish of Saint-
Pierre in Montdidier, bishopric of Beauvais, and of Adrienne
Langlois. Pierre Larché had died by 1668, and Michel was raised
in Trois-Rivières at the home of Jacques Leneuf* de La Poterie,
father of Michel Leneuf de La Vallière, senior. The latter seems
to have taken Michel Larché with him to Acadia to his seigneury
of Beaubassin. Rameau de Saint-Père writes of La Vallière and
his seigneury, “among the indentured employees, we find . . . an
active and intelligent young man named Haché Galand, who was [La
Vallière’s] business representative, serjeant-at-arms, and
confidential agent.” In 1690 Michel Haché married Anne Cormier;
they had