Welcome / Bienvenue!

… to my web site which was originally devoted just to my eighth great grandmother, Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier, and was created:

• To tell the story of this remarkable woman amidst the times and places of her life;
• To record her history for my immediate family and for all the descendants of Jeanne and her second husband Robert Levesque;
• To share news about books on Jeanne’s life and the progress of my research;
• To provide lessons for those interested in applying their creative talents in new fields, particularly history; and
• To furnish hints for those embarking on genealogical voyages.

Over the past few years, I’ve expanded the scope of this website to include more information, thoughts and wonderings about how her life has affected mine.  I have also begun to include some articles about other courageous women in early New France.

Thanks to my cousin Father Peter Dumont in New Hampshire, his cousin Michel Moisan in Quebec City, and to my translator in France, all blog posts are available in French. Just click on the French flag in the top right corner of any page to access the French version.  I do, of course, take full and entire responsibility for any errors, in English or in French, either historical or grammatical!

Finally, if by chance you’ve landed on this site because of your curiosity around what happened to Lynne Levesque, consultant and author of Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents, The Breakthrough Creativity Profile, and related works, please read on!