Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de La Pierrière
[3] On 21 November 1645 the Jesuit Charles Hempteau married du Parquet to Marie Bonnard of Paris.
[7] Noël Patrocles de Thoisy was named the King's lieutenant general of the American Islands on 20 February 1645.
[9] In July 1645 he expelled the intendant general, Clerselier de Leumont, who retired to Guadeloupe, and sent his most troublesome opponents back to France.
[9] La Pierrière was interim governor of Martinique from February 1646 to January 1647 during the absence of du Parquet.
A few days later two of Poincy's emissaries arrived from Guadeloupe and said that the inhabitants of that island had taken up arms and in response governor Charles Houël du Petit Pré had suppressed their rights.
[1] On 7 July 1646, thinking that his silence meant he supported them, some rebels plundered the stores of La Prêcheur merchants.
[1] Parquet's partisans and his wife Marie Bonnard were concerned by La Pierrière's equivocal attitude, which served to encourage the sedition.
Le Fort told him that the next day, 6 August, Beaufort would arrive with his co-rebels and force him to sign a document.
[20] Thoisy sent an officer to Martinique who published a general amnesty dated 23 September 1646 for everyone who had been involved in the recent disturbances.
[12] In November 1646 Houël started a revolt against Thoisy, claiming that his presence on Guadeloupe deprived him of his rights as governor.
[24] During the night of January 16–17 1647 a council was held on Martinique in the home of Marie Bonnard du Parquet, the governor's wife, in which it was decided to arrest Thoisy.
[26] Around the start of 1654 the master of a ship subjected a Carib of Saint Vincent to a severe punishment on the pretext that one of his sailors had been murdered.
Parquet embarked 150 men on three ships under La Pierrière, who descended on Saint Vincent and for eight days attacked the Caribs and pillaged, burned or destroyed all they could lay their hands on before returning the Martinique.
Hostilities then broke out on Martinique, where the Caribs at first gained the upper hand before being driven back to the eastern part of the island.
[28] In the second half of 1672 the French Governor General Jean-Charles de Baas learned of the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War, and began to organize an expedition against the Dutch base on Curaçao.
