Note 138 — Chapter III · THE FOX WARS: A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT
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Named for Charles Beauharnois, governor of New France from 1726 to 1747. He was reputed to be the natural son of Louis XIV, and it has sometimes been said, though apparently incorrectly, that the Empress Josephine was descended from him.
[139] Narrative of De Boucherville, Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVII, 36 ff.
[140] Ibid., 36 ff., 110.
[141] For the documents pertaining to this affair see Wisconsin Historical Collections, V, 106-7; and XVII, 100-101, 109-30.