The King's Bastion - Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site (pc.gc.ca)
The Military Chapel
This was no priest-ridden colony. Though almost all the people were Catholic, the Church had neither abundant property nor independent wealth. The Récollet missionaries who provided spiritual care never got their parish church, and so the community worshipped in this military chapel. The patron above the altar is the saint-king of France, Louis IX. Four people were honoured with burial beneath the floorboards of the chapel: Governors de Forant and Duquesnel who died in 1740 and 1744, the Duc d’Anville, who perished leading a doomed attempt to retake Louisbourg in 1746, and Michel de Gannes de Falaise, who died in 1752. There are also the remains of an unidentified child buried here.
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