Plessis completed his classical course around July 1780 the following month he was tonsured by Briand and assigned as a teaching assistant to the Collège Saint-Raphaël. He also demonstrated leadership qualities received into the Congrégation de la Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie-Immaculée in October 1778, he was elected prefect, the highest student position in the fraternity, in April 1780. As always, he accomplished his studies with ease. By its rigorism and emphasis on the practice of the priesthood, the program of studies instilled in Plessis a moral austerity and a preference for practical concerns over intellectual discussion. In the autumn of 1778, with the aid of a bursary, Plessis entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec. Plessis easily mastered his subjects, winning several prizes, and in 1777 or 1778 he completed his sixth year (Rhetoric) at the college. That year Curatteau’s school was moved into the city and became the Collège Saint-Raphaël. In the spring of 1773 he was confirmed by Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand*. At the Sulpician primary school he had little difficulty with the curriculum of reading, writing, arithmetic, and the catechism. After just one year he was sent to a small Latin school operated by Jean-Baptiste Curatteau*, parish priest at Longue-Pointe (Montreal). The seventh of eighteen children raised in a home both happy and religious, Joseph-Octave acquired confidence in his manifest abilities. Joseph-Amable was a blacksmith, with a forge near Montreal, and his prosperity was ensured after the conquest by the increased demand for iron products resulting from another British invasion, that of merchants in the fur trade. In 1713 Jean-Louis Plessy*, dit Bélair, married Marie-Anne Petit Boismorel, and nearly 40 years later, in 1752, their 17th child, Joseph-Amable, married Marie-Louise Mennard. His paternal ancestors had moved to the colony from Metz, France, at the beginning of the 18th century. Joseph-Octave Plessis was born a little more than three weeks after the Treaty of Paris confirmed the British conquest of New France. 3 March 1763 in Montreal, son of Joseph-Amable Plessy, dit Bélair, and Marie-Louise Mennard d. 4 Dec. 1825 at Quebec. PLESSIS, JOSEPH-OCTAVE (baptized Joseph), priest of the Roman Catholic Church, archbishop, politician, and author b. Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 2882492
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