Jean Leclerc and his wife Jeanne Luscia or Lucia lived in Braye-sous-Faye (halfway between Angers and Tours; 368 people in 1999), where they were married about 1616 at the twelfth-century church of St-Jean-Baptiste (photo above). Jeanne was the daughter of Moïse Luscia and Jeanne Grosse. (The name sounds Sephardic Jewish, but we know nothing about the Luscia family.)

Their son Florent Leclerc (1619-1664) came to Québec in the mid-1650s; we do not know what his profession was, or why he came. In January 1658 at Trois-Rivières he married the widow Marie Gendre, who already had four children by her first husband Jean Bourgery. He lived only six more years, but they had three children: Florent (1658-1704, married Jeanne Aubuchon, nine children; she was a sister of our ancestor Marguérite Aubuchon); Étiennette (1663-1715, married François Bergeron); and Jean (married Marie-Claire Loiseau dit Francoeur).

Étiennette and François Bergeron were the parents of Marie-Marguérite Bergeron, who married Jean-Baptiste Foucault and was a great-great-great-great-grandmother of Joseph Arthur Martin.