VENTADOUR, Henry de Levis-La Voute, Duke de, third viceroy of Canada, born in the castle of Moustier Ventadour, near Tulle, Corrgze, about 1595; died in Paris in 1651. He was the second Duke of Ventadour, and, after serving for several years in the army, retired and took holy orders. In 1625 he bought for 20,000 livres from his uncle, Henry, Duke de Montmorency, the viceroyalty of Canada. According to the historian, "it was no worldly motive that prompted this young nobleman to assume the burden of fostering the infancy of New France. For trade and colonization he cared nothing; the conversion of infidels was his sole care. The Jesuits had the keeping of his conscience, and in his eye they were the most fitting instrument for his purpose." Tile Recollet friars that had arrived in Canada a few years before had already established five missions. To please De Ventadour they applied for the assistance of the Jesuits, and the duke sent to Canada, in 1625, Charles Lalemant, Enemond Massd, and Jean de Brebeuf. They were followed in 1626 by Noirot de la None and twenty other laborers. Emery de Caen had then the monopoly of trade and commerce in Canada, but, as he was a Huguenut, Ventadour endeavored to limit his privilege, and went so far as to prohibit Emery's followers from prayer and singing. Ventadour sent one ship to Canada in 1626 to explore his new dominion, but denied the colonists any support, under the pretence that they were Protestants, and when Richelieu in 1627 compelled Ventadour to sell his viceroyalty to the newly organized company of the Hundred associates, the fifty inhabitants of Quebec were nearly starving. Pointe Levis had been named after the third viceroy of Canada. Ventadour continued to the end of his life to interest himself in the conversion of infidels, and he sent succor several times to the missions that had been established by the Jesuits in New France.