Deschenaux soon discovered that
Cadet could be useful to him; he made him his friend and lost no
opportunity to recommend him to the Intendant. He was accordingly
often employed to buy the supplies for the subsistence of the troops.
In verity, there were few men more active, more industrious, more
competent to drive a bargain. The King required his services and
secured them, by having Cadet named Commissary General. He had his
redeeming points - was open-handed in his dealings - of a kindly nature
and lavish even to excess."
The worthy Commissary General, like Pean, was blessed with a charming
wife, whom Panet's Diary styles "La Belle Amazone Aventuriere."
Probably like her worthy spouse, - of low extraction; "elle n'etait pas
sortie de la cuisse de Jupiter," to use a familiar French saw.
She certainly was not, like Caesar's wife "above suspicion." Madame
Cadet, later on, transferred her allegiance from the rich butcher
Cadet, to one "Sieur Joseph Ruffio";... but let us draw the veil of
oblivion over the short comings of another age.
"Capt. Hughes Pean, Chevalier de la Livaudiere, was Town Major
of Quebec, aide-Major des Troupes." He was not long in discovering
that with an Intendant like Bigot, he could dare anything.
