Charles François Bailly de Messein (4 November 1740 – 20 May 1794) was a priest active in the British province of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for his Loyalist activism during the American invasion of Quebec, when he was injured during the Battle of Saint-Pierre, and for publicly supporting a planned university that his bishop opposed.
Charles François Bailly de Messein was born in Varennes on November 11, 1740. ...
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Charles François Bailly de Messein (4 November 1740 – 20 May 1794) was a priest active in the British province of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for his Loyalist activism during the American invasion of Quebec, when he was injured during the Battle of Saint-Pierre, and for publicly supporting a planned university that his bishop opposed.
Charles François Bailly de Messein was born in Varennes on November 11, 1740. His parents sent him to study at the to College Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He was ordained to the priesthood at the Quebec Seminary on March 10th, 1767. He was sent as a missionary to Nova Scotia from 1767 to 1771.
On his return to Quebec in 1772, Bailly became professor of rhetoric at the Quebec Seminary, a post he held for four years. He was admitted as a member of the board of directors of the seminary in December 1774, the same year he wrote his paper Rhetorica in Seminario Quebecensi.
During American invasion of Quebec, Bailly travelled in...
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