page_title: Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
section_title: Three heiresses
hierarchical_section_title: Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière / Three heiresses
caption_attribution_description: English: Charlotte Munro de Fowlis, afterwards Mme de Lotbiniere
context_page_description: Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière, though to keep political favour with the British he never used the title. He was seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud. He was the Speaker of the House of Commons in Lower Canada who saw to it that the French language was recognised as equal to English in the Quebec Parliament, where a painting of him giving the speech still hangs above the Speaker's chair.
context_section_description: Chartier de Lotbinière was married twice. In 1770, he married Josette, sister of Lt.-Colonel Joseph-Marie Godefroy de Tonnancour. She died without children in 1799. In 1802, at Vaudreuil, he married Mary Charlotte Munro (1776–1834), the youngest daughter of Captain The Hon. John Munro of Fowlis and his wife Marie Talbot Gilbert Brouwer, of Albany, New York. They were the parents of three daughters, the heiresses who were known in Quebec as The Three Graces or Les Trois Cannelles.
  Their eldest daughter, Louise-Josephte (1803–1869), chose the family home of Vaudreuil as her dowry and married Robert Unwin Harwood. They were the parents of ten children, from whom descend the de Lotbinière-Harwood family.
  Their second daughter, Marie-Charlotte (1805–1866), was given Rigaud as her dowry. In 1821, she married the American millionaire, William Bingham (whose sister was married to Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton), the only son of Senator William Bingham of Philadelphia (an old friend of Charlotte's father), and his wife Ann Willing Bingham, daughter of Thomas Willing. They lived at Montreal in the house that would become Donegana's Hotel before moving to Paris, and later separated. He remained in Paris and she died at Oxford Terrace in London. They were the parents of two sons who died in early manhood and three daughters. All three daughters lived in France and married French Counts. The youngest, Georgina, married Count Raoul d'Eprémesnil, grandson of Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil. The Seigneury of Rigaud was passed to Charlotte's eldest niece, Marie-Louise de Lotbinière-Harwood who married Antoine Eustache de Bellefeuille MacDonald, son of John MacDonald of Garth.
  Their youngest daughter, Julie-Christine (1810–1887), was given Lotbinière as her dowry, and she married Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, the first man to photograph the Acropolis. They were the parents of a daughter and two sons. Their second son, Edmond, was killed at the Siege of Lucknow. From the eldest son, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, grandfather of Seymour de Lotbiniere, descend the Joly de Lotbinière family.
  His grandsons, Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood and Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, both later became members of the legislative assembly for Canada East and then Quebec. Joly de Lotbinière also served as Prime Minister of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Two more grandsons, Robert Harwood and Henry Stanislas Harwood were Members of Parliament for Vaudreuil.
caption: Charlotte (Munro) Chartier de Lotbinière, the mother of Lotbinière's three children
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