Benoît-François Bernier (24 April 1720, Vienne[lower-alpha 1]  – 1799[lower-alpha 2]), also known as Joseph-Pierre[lower-alpha 3] was a French army officer, Commissioner of War[lower-alpha 4] who served in New France. He gained notability as the financial commissary of wars in that location.[1] He was born to parents François Bernier[2][1][4] and Marie Malen[2][1][4] (Sometimes written "Mallen"[1][4]). He married a woman by the name of Vincente Elisabeth Verger,[20][21][22] though the date of this is as of yet unknown.

The earliest records of Bernier's military service see him as a "Sub-Lieutenant"[2][1] in the Royal Swedish Regiment in 1747,[1][7][2][6] following this it is known that he served in the Siege of Maastricht in 1748 as a Lieutenant proper,[1][2] with half pay,[2][1] for reasons that are currently unknown, before he joined in with Dieskau's campaigning in the French and Indian War, as his aide-de-camp[lower-alpha 5].

Bernier is known to have been a recipient of the Order of Saint Louis[lower-alpha 6] in late November of 1760,[1] following his moving to the French mainland,[1] he was also issued a pension of 1,200 Livres,[1][7] and in addition, he was made a financial commissary in Dunkirk[7][1][26][lower-alpha 7], where he is known to have lived for the remainder of his life.[1] He retired on September 2, 1776.[1] A survivor of the French Revolution, the new Republican government also issued him an annual pension.[1][2] Benoît-François Bernier died in 1799.[1][2][7][28]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sources;[1][2][3][4][5][6]
  2. ↑ Sources;[1][7][8][2][5]
  3. ↑ Sources;[1][6][9][10][11]
  4. ↑ Sources;[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
  5. ↑ Sources;[23][3][24][6][25][2][7][1]
  6. ↑ Sources;[7][21][1][20][25][22]
  7. ↑ He is also listed as an "Ordinator" for the Navy at Dunkirk,[27] these are indicative of the same rank.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 "Biography – BERNIER, BENOÎT-FRANÇOIS – Volume IV (1771-1800) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Bernier, Cyril (1992). Moisson de Bernier (in French). Bernier. ISBN 978-2-920177-23-9.
  3. 1 2 L'Ingénieur (in French). Association des diplômés de Polytechnique. 1935.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française (in French). La Société. 1986.
  5. 1 2 Belser, Christophe; Cacqueray, Aurélie de (1998). Les noms de famille en Poitou-Charentes Vendée (in French). Archives & Culture. ISBN 978-2-911665-18-9.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Bulletin des recherches historiques (in French). A. Roy. 1922.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pouchot, Pierre (1994). Memoirs on the Late War in North America Between France and England. Old Fort Niagara Association. ISBN 978-0-941967-14-3.
  8. ↑ Les noms de famille en France: histoires et anecdotes (in French). Archives & culture. 2000. ISBN 978-2-911665-44-8.
  9. ↑ Association, American Historical (1925). Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  10. ↑ Various (2021-07-09). Routledge Library Editions: World Empires. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-00225-7.
  11. ↑ Lydon, James G. (2018-05-01). Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the French and Indian War. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-00001-7.
  12. ↑ Larin, Robert (2006). Canadiens en Guyane, 1754-1805 (in French). Presses Paris Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-84050-410-8.
  13. ↑ MacLeod, D. Peter (2016-03-22). Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-94695-4.
  14. ↑ Rheault, Marcel J. (2004). La médecine en Nouvelle-France: les chirurgiens de Montréal, 1642-1760 (in French). Les éditions du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-89448-402-9.
  15. ↑ "British in Quebec". cbc.ca.
  16. ↑ "List of Officers". montcalm-rochambeau.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  17. ↑ Veyssière, Laurent. "« Les derniers jours de la présence militaire française au Canada », Revue historique des armées, no 266, mars 2012, France Canada, p. 3-14". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ↑ Veyssière, Laurent (2012-03-15). "Les derniers jours de la présence militaire française au Canada". Revue historique des armées (in French) (266): 3–14. ISSN 0035-3299.
  19. ↑ Morbihan (1877). Inventaire-Sommaire des archives départementales. Morbihan, par m. Rosenzweig [and others] (in French).
  20. 1 2 Morbihan, Archives départementales du (1877). Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790, Morbihan: archives civiles (in French). Impr. et librairie administration de P. Dupont.
  21. 1 2 "Inventaire après décès de Vincente Elisabeth Verger, épouse de Benoît François Bernier, commissaire des guerres, ancien ordonnateur de marine, chevalier de Saint-Louis, demeurant rue des Maçons. L'inventaire est poursuivi dans une maison de campagne à Montlhéry. Quartier Saint-André-des-Arts". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  22. 1 2 Archives départementales du Morbihan, Archives départementales du Morbihan (1877). Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790 ... (in French). University of Michigan. Impr. et librairieadministration de P. Dupont.
  23. ↑ Roy, Pierre Georges (1931). Les petites choses de notre histoire (in French).
  24. ↑ "BAnQ numérique". numerique.banq.qc.ca (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  25. 1 2 Pouchot, Pierre (2003). Mémoires sur la dernière guerre de l'Amérique septentrionale entre la France et l'Angleterre. Internet Archive. Sillery, Québec : Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-89448-303-9.
  26. ↑ Dechêne, Louise (2021-07-15). People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-2280-0721-0.
  27. ↑ "Bernier (Benoît François), commissaire des guerres, ordonnateur de la Marine à Dunkerque". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  28. ↑ Les noms de famille en France: histoires et anecdotes (in French). Archives & culture. 2000. ISBN 978-2-911665-44-8.


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