Itasse

or Itas

Marguérite Itasse was a "fille du roi." The name is rare, but still found today in northern France: there is a well-known modern painter named Martine Itasse, from Lille, and a sculptor, Adolphe Itasse (1830-1893); Marie-Louise Itasse was the wife of Napoléon's marshal Jean Sérurier.

Jean Itasse lived in St-Siméon in Normandy near Lisieux, where in about 1645 he married Marie Casson or Capon; their daughter Marguérite (we know of no siblings) was born in 1647 or 1649. She came to Québec in probably 1666. It would be nice to know why, as a teenager, she became a "fille du roi" - it may have been her parents' extreme poverty, or she may have been a prostitute. She married the much-older widower Jacques Aubuchon in November 1667 (see Aubuchon). She died in October 1689 at Trois-Rivières. She would certainly have known the rue des Ursulines in that town, as painted above, by P. Hudon.