Jean and Sophie Langevin had 13 children, of whom five boys and two girls survived. Their children would be members of what one historian has called “the cultured and civilized middle class of the capital.” 1820 to the daughter of Pierre Laforce, a notary, confirmed his rising social status. Their family worked the land until early in the 19th century, when Jean, the father of Hector-Louis, abandoned farming to become a shopkeeper and office holder at Quebec. 1668 at Quebec, Jean Bergevin, dit Langevin, married Marie Piton, a native of the parish of Saint-Paul in the diocese of Paris. Hector-Louis Langevin was descended from a soldier in the Régiment de Carignan-Salières, which Jean Talon* settled in Bourg-Royal (Quebec) between 16 after a major expedition against the Iroquois. 1854 Marie-Justine Têtu, daughter of Charles-Hilaire Têtu*, in Rivière-Ouelle, Lower Canada, and they had nine children, including Hectorine, who married Thomas Chapais* in 1884 d. 11 June 1906 at Quebec. 1826 at Quebec, son of Jean Langevin and Sophie Laforce m. LANGEVIN, Sir HECTOR-LOUIS, lawyer, journalist, and politician b. Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 3461413
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