GALLISSONNIERE, gal1e's5'nyae, Angus mix FELIx ELISABETH BABRIN, Comte de la (1742 1828) . A French soldier. He was a nephew of Roland Michel Barrin, Marquis de la Gallis sonniere, and was born at Anjou. He entered the navy while he was a boy, and served under his uncle in Canada; then he fought in the Hano verian campaigns. In 1788 he was appointed field-marshal, and, just before the Revolution, was invested with the grand sword of Anjou, and was made president of the nobility in the States General. When the Revolution came he was a Deputy to the Constituent Assembly, and on its dissolution refused to leave the country, but later became an emigre and fought under Conde. But in 1801 he returned to France and was elected Deputy in 1809. After the Restoration he fared equally well, being promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, but soon retired. He wrote on the establishment of the National Guard, on the Constitution of 1789, on the freedom of the press, and many other contemporaneous topics.
GALLISSONNItRE, ROLAND MICIIEL BAR BEN, Marquis de la (1693-1756). A French naval officer and Governor-General of Canada, 1747-49. He was born at Rochefort, and at the age of seventeen entered the Royal Navy. In 1745, al though only a captain in rank, he was appointed to the position of Governor-General of Canada to succeed Beauharnois. He reached Quebec in
1747, and during the two years he remained in Canada displayed not only great energy, but broad statesmanship. His plan for advancement of the French possessions in America provided for building a chain of forts in the Mississippi Valley to connect Louisiana and Canada, for set tling ten thousand French peasants in the Ohio Valley to check the migration that was beginning to pour over the Alleghanies from the English colonies, and for winning the friendship and alli ance of the Iroquois tribes. He succeeded in establishing some forts, and supported Abb5 Pi- 1 quet in his mission to the Iroquois country, but his request for new settlers remained unheeded. In 1749 he was recalled to France to act on the commission to fix the boundaries to be established under the 'Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and was succeeded by the Marquis de la Jonquiere. On his return to France he was made chief of the naval Bureau of Charts and Plans, in which posi tion he organized several important scientific ex peditions. In May, 1756, he defeated the English fleet under Admiral Byng off Minorca, a result which led to the court-martial and execution of the latter. Gallissonniere died the same year.