Jacques Chotard and his wife Suzanne Gabaret lived in the town of St-Pierre on the Île d'Oléron (see photo), just south of La Rochelle. We know nothing further about the family, but there was a Jean-Baptiste Chotard from Marennes on the nearby mainland, who also settled in Québec (though not in Château-Richer, where these Chotards probably lived). Jacques and Suzanne were married sometime in the 1630s on the Île d'Oléron, and probably emigrated sometime before 1663, when their daughter Jeanne was married to Pierre LaBrecque (on February 1, 1663 at Château-Richer). Jeanne died in September 1711 in the parish of St-Laurent on the Île d'Orléans. See Labrecque for her four children.

We find no evidence of siblings for Jeanne, nor records of her parents living in Château-Richer, so it's possible that she was a "fille du roi" who came without her parents But she is not listed among the documented "filles du roi." In some records her surname appears as "Totard."