Chapter VI: DEGREE. Father. Jacques de Saint-Remi de Valois, first called

de Luz, and afterwards de Valois, styled Knight, Baron de Saint-Remi, was born at Fontette, December 22, 1717, and baptized January 1, 1718. In his baptismal attestation which contains his name and condition, his father, thereat present, is called and styled, “Messire Nicolas Renatus de Saint-Remi de Valois, Baron de Saint-Remi;” and his aunt, who was one of the sponsors, is therein called “Demoiselle Barbe Thérèse, daughter of the late Messire Pierre Jean de Saint-Remi de Valois.” Both of them signed their names to it, Saint-Remi de Valois. He espoused, in the parish church of St. Martin, at Langres, on the 14th of August, 1755, Marie Jossel, by whom he already had a son, who follows: and died at the Hôtel Dieu, in Paris, February 16, 1762, according to the register of his death, in which he is called and styled, “Jacques de Valois, Knight, Baron de Saint-Remi.”