He was born at
Ancy-le-Franc into a noble family, the son of Antoine d'Ailleboust and Suzanne Hotman. His grandfather was
François Hotman. He was trained as a military engineer. He went to Ville-Marie (now
Montréal) in 1643 and played a leading role there; he was an acting
governor of Montreal. After being named governor in 1648, he tried in vain to prevent the
Iroquois from annihilating most of the
Hurons, who had allied themselves with the French settlers. On 17 May 1657, at
Saint-Nazaire,
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and d'Ailleboust, as well as three
Sulpicians (
Gabriel Souart, Antoine d'Allet, and Dominique Galinier) under the leadership of
Gabriel de Queylus, the first superior of
Saint-Sulpice at Montreal, boarded the ship bound for Canada. The travellers, after a stormy crossing, landed on the
Île d'Orléans, 29 July. In the middle of August the four Sulpicians, whom the
Jesuits had kept as their guests for a few days in their residence, settled down at Ville-Marie. Louis d'Ailleboust died at Montreal on 31 May 1660, at the age of 48. He left no children. He was buried on 1 June 1660, in the cemetery of the hospital that stood on the site of today's
Place d'Armes. ==See also==