This document signed by Louix XIV officialized the 1694 grant of a seigneury on the Richelieu River to Jean-Baptiste Hertel, Sieur de Rouville. The seigneurial manor house in Saint-Hilaire featured a portrait gallery of the Hertel de Rouville family. Nine surviving paintings from the gallery, the only such Canadian collection of its kind, are in the McCord Museum.
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