Benoît-François Bernier

Benoît-François Bernier (24 April 1720, Vienne[lower-alpha 1]  – 1799[lower-alpha 2]), also known as Joseph-Pierre[lower-alpha 3] was a French army officer, Commissioner of War[lower-alpha 4] who served in New France. He gained notability as the financial commissary of wars in that location.[1] He was born to parents François Bernier[2][1][4] and Marie Malen[2][1][4] (Sometimes written "Mallen"[1][4]). He married a woman by the name of Vincente Elisabeth Verger,[20][21][22] though the date of this is as of yet unknown.

The earliest records of Bernier's military service see him as a "Sub-Lieutenant"[2][1] in the Royal Swedish Regiment in 1747,[1][7][2][6] following this it is known that he served in the Siege of Maastricht in 1748 as a Lieutenant proper,[1][2] with half pay,[2][1] for reasons that are currently unknown, before he joined in with Dieskau's campaigning in the French and Indian War, as his aide-de-camp[lower-alpha 5].

Bernier is known to have been a recipient of the Order of Saint Louis[lower-alpha 6] in late November of 1760,[1] following his moving to the French mainland,[1] he was also issued a pension of 1,200 Livres,[1][7] and in addition, he was made a financial commissary in Dunkirk[7][1][26][lower-alpha 7], where he is known to have lived for the remainder of his life.[1] He retired on September 2, 1776.[1] A survivor of the French Revolution, the new Republican government also issued him an annual pension.[1][2] Benoît-François Bernier died in 1799.[1][2][7][28]

Notes
  1. Sources;[1][2][3][4][5][6]
  2. Sources;[1][7][8][2][5]
  3. Sources;[1][6][9][10][11]
  4. Sources;[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
  5. Sources;[23][3][24][6][25][2][7][1]
  6. Sources;[7][21][1][20][25][22]
  7. He is also listed as an "Ordinator" for the Navy at Dunkirk,[27] these are indicative of the same rank.

References
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  3. L'Ingénieur (in French). Association des diplômés de Polytechnique. 1935.
  4. Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française (in French). La Société. 1986.
  5. Belser, Christophe; Cacqueray, Aurélie de (1998). Les noms de famille en Poitou-Charentes Vendée (in French). Archives & Culture. ISBN 978-2-911665-18-9.
  6. Bulletin des recherches historiques (in French). A. Roy. 1922.
  7. Pouchot, Pierre (1994). Memoirs on the Late War in North America Between France and England. Old Fort Niagara Association. ISBN 978-0-941967-14-3.
  8. Les noms de famille en France: histoires et anecdotes (in French). Archives & culture. 2000. ISBN 978-2-911665-44-8.
  9. Association, American Historical (1925). Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  10. Various (2021-07-09). Routledge Library Editions: World Empires. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-00225-7.
  11. Lydon, James G. (2018-05-01). Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the French and Indian War. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-00001-7.
  12. Larin, Robert (2006). Canadiens en Guyane, 1754-1805 (in French). Presses Paris Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-84050-410-8.
  13. MacLeod, D. Peter (2016-03-22). Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-94695-4.
  14. Rheault, Marcel J. (2004). La médecine en Nouvelle-France: les chirurgiens de Montréal, 1642-1760 (in French). Les éditions du Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-89448-402-9.
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  21. "Inventaire après décès de Vincente Elisabeth Verger, épouse de Benoît François Bernier, commissaire des guerres, ancien ordonnateur de marine, chevalier de Saint-Louis, demeurant rue des Maçons. L'inventaire est poursuivi dans une maison de campagne à Montlhéry. Quartier Saint-André-des-Arts". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  22. Archives départementales du Morbihan, Archives départementales du Morbihan (1877). Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790 ... (in French). University of Michigan. Impr. et librairieadministration de P. Dupont.
  23. Roy, Pierre Georges (1931). Les petites choses de notre histoire (in French).
  24. "BAnQ numérique". numerique.banq.qc.ca (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  25. Pouchot, Pierre (2003). Mémoires sur la dernière guerre de l'Amérique septentrionale entre la France et l'Angleterre. Internet Archive. Sillery, Québec : Septentrion. ISBN 978-2-89448-303-9.
  26. Dechêne, Louise (2021-07-15). People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-2280-0721-0.
  27. "Bernier (Benoît François), commissaire des guerres, ordonnateur de la Marine à Dunkerque". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
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