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The Administration Of Justice At The Fortress Of Louisbourg (1713-1758)

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Julien Fizel ran a respectable inn ... It seems some ships' captains had taken a dislike to a boarder there since he consorted with local law enforcement agents. They began to taunt him and he took a pot off a table; threatening to throw it at them if they didn't leave him alone. The boarder was taken upstairs under duress but soon came running down the stairs and a scuffle broke out in which the boarder threatened to flatten his assailants "like a cookie". Poor M. Fizel who was being shaved at the time, and his young son, who was trying to sleep upstairs, were disturbed by the whole event. The neighbours must have buzzed with the news for days. [R. J. Morgan, Gossips' Tour of Louisbourg, Unpublished Report H F 30 (Fortress of Louisbourg, July, 1975), p. 7]

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