2016
Cape Vincent • New York
French Festival
47th Annual
48th
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EARLY FRENCH HISTORY
E
arly records of the explo-
ration of the French in
North America tell us
that they were in the area of
Cape Vincent as early as 1615.
This area was also occupied by
the indians and used as their
hunting grounds for many years.
In 1655 the French missionary
priests Father Chaumonoit, Father Dablon and Father Simon
LeMoyne came among the
Onondaga Indians to establish
missions and homes.
James LeRay de Chaumont
acquired many thousands of
acres of land in Northern New
York in the late 1790’s and early
1800’s. Cape Vincent was
named after his son, Vincent
LeRay. Father and son worked
together and used their influence
back in their homeland to attract
many French emigres and
refugees of the Napoleonic
regime to come and settle in
Cape Vincent and surrounding
areas.
Some of the refugees returned
to France after a few years but a
majority of the emigres stayed on
and many of their descendants
still live in the area. Reminders of
our French history include many
family names, homes, personal
belongings, letters and other documents.
For more information about
Cape Vincent’s history and its
French background, we invite
you to visit the Cape Vincent
Community House and Museum on Market Street, the Cape
Vincent Museum on North
James Street and the Cape Vincent Community Library on
Real Street.
The Cup and Saucer House
By Peter J. Margrey
Town of Cape Vincent Past Historian
C
ount Pierre Real, exiled from France by the
downfall of Napoleon I after the French Revolution came to Cape Vincent in 1816. Count
Real was Prefect of Police under Napoleon, and by
1818 had built the well-known "cup and Saucer
House". Although it was meant to be for Napoleon
if he could be rescued from St. Helena, Count Real
himself lived in this house when he returned to Cape
Vincent in 1822. It received its name because of the
peculiar style of architecture--resemble an inverted
cup placed in a saucer. When Napoleon was not rescued from St. Helena, the house was sold to
Theophius Peugnet, and Real returned to France.
Peugnet was also a follower of Napoleon and came
to Cape Vincent after the French Revolution. He and
his family lived in the house until it burned in 1867.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Purcell of New York City
and Cape Vincent bought this parcel of land and
had the Community library built on it. While this
land was being excavated for the walls of the library, Floyd Gould Sr., contractor, found some of
the remains of the foundation of the Cup and
Saucer House. The Library was dedicated in June
1968.
Why a “French” Festival?
N
apoleon Bonaparte is the most widely
renowned leader of France and he is
often regarded as one of the greatest military leaders ever. Napoleon is a widely recognizable representative of France. We cannot
claim to have actually had Napoleon himself in
the North Country but there is no doubt that the
Bonaparte name and the French influence are
apparent in the area.
While in his heyday, Napoleon gave his several brothers the crowns of countries he conquered. His older brother, Giuseppe (Joseph)
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Spain
but fled Spain with the crown jewels and other
treasures after defeat at the Battle of Vitoria in
1813. He returned to France and supported and
soldiered for his younger brother, Napoleon.
Continued on page 10
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48th Annual
LaFête Francaise
FRENCH FESTIVAL • CAPE VINCENT, NY
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JULY 9 AND 10, 2016
SATURDAY, JULY 9TH
Mr. George Elmer, Master Of Ceremonies
3:30 pm to 6 pm Street Entertainer
4 pm Awards At Reviewing Stand
7 am - 11 am - Pancake Breakfast at
4:15 pm - 6 pm - Band Performances
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Market St.
5 pm Festival Mass - St. Vincent of Paul
Church (Spoken in French)
8 am - French Pastry & French Bread Sale
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm - Music by
WAGNERS AGENDA at the Fire Hall
9 am - All Crafts & Exhibits Open, French
Re-enactors
9:30 pm - Fireworks at the
Breakwall on Waterfront
10:30 am - 2 pm Street Entertainer
11 am Official Opening Reviewing Stand,
Broadway Welcome by Mayor and
Town Supervisor,
Crowning of French Festival Queen,
Presentation of Queen’s Court,
Proclamation by French Festival Queen
2 pm Parade - Napoleon will lead the
Parade; includes Floats, Bands and
Other Attractions. Over 40 units.
SUNDAY, JULY 10TH
9 am - 3 pm Arts & Craft Show & Sale,
Petting Zoo, and Copenhagen Carvers
1 pm - 3 pm Mark Mason Blues Band
CARTS
T-Shirts • Flags • Tote Bags
French Bread • Pastry
Balloons • Information
Free shuttle all day Saturday from Bay Street/Grant Road to Downtown.
49th French Festival
July 8 & 9, 2017
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Each year the Cape Vincent
French Festival Committee has the
privilege to acknowledge the outstanding commitment and contributions of an individual who
exemplifies volunteerism in support
of the French Festival. Again this
year the committee discussed a number of deserving contributors and ultimately decided by unanimous vote
to dedicate the 2015 French Festival
to Sally Hirschey.
Sally was raised in St. Louis Missouri and attended the University of Miami in Ohio. She
studied in France for a year learning the French
language. After college graduation she took an
elementary teaching job. She met her husband,
Urban, in Detroit Michigan. They moved to
Carthage, NY where Sally raised her family
and taught at Carthage Elementary School.
The Hirscheys moved to Cape Vincent in 1999.
She states that her love for France and the
French, in addition to her love of Lake Ontario
and the St. Lawrence River, is one of the reasons she wanted Cape Vincent to be her home.
In Cape Vincent she is involved in several
nonprofit organizations. Sally is a member of
the Cape Vincent Improvement League and the
Garden Club. In the past, she has organized
Les Belles Fleurs garden contest during the
weeks prior to French Festival. The object of
the event was to “make pretty Cape Vincent
even prettier.” The awards were given out at
French Festival opening ceremonies.
She
helped organize with the Lyme Garden Club,
the Golden Crescent Garden Tour to raise
funds for the Cape Vincent Improvement
League and Lyme Foundation. Sally also assists
with the plantings, weeding and
watering of the urns that help to
make Cape Vincent more beautiful in the summer.
Sally is a member of the French
Festival Committee and attends
the monthly meetings regularly.
She is the chair of the French
theme and also organizes the retail sales of tee-shirts, tote bags
and flags. She gets the volunteers
in place and helps sell the items
with enthusiasm and energy. Sally
assists with invited guests to appear on the reviewing stand during the opening ceremonies
of the festival and organizes the seating for the
attendees.
Sally has also hosted the Annual Le Café
Francais fundraiser with the Friends of the
Cape Vincent Community Library. Sally is also
a member of the Cape Vincent Arts Council
where she helps with fundraising events such
as the Prelude to Chopin cocktail party and
1000 Piano Competition held in Cape Vincent
at Maple Grove Estate on Broadway Street.
The Hirschey’s also have hosted competitors
and their families leading up to and during the
competition for several years.
Sally is a past member of the Cape Vincent
Local Development Corporation and is a current member of the Ya-Ya Sisters. She is a former member of the board of directors for the
Thousand Islands Art Center, Home of the
Handweaving Museum in Clayton and is on
the board of Ontario Bays Initiative, a land
trust protecting the bays of Lake Ontario. She
was also on the Jefferson Community College
Foundation in Watertown.
Merci Beaucoup Sally !!
PAST FRENCH FESTIVAL QUEENS
(Names at the time of coronation)
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
Julie Constance
Debbie Aubertine
Mary Ann Wiley
Judy McArdle
Barbara Kuellertz
Gail Cmaylo
Joanne Bates
Jean White
Mary Lynn Robbins
Cheri Wiley
Sheri Ingerson
Kimberly Merchant
Lori Pond
Melinda Johnson
Janine Brown
Rachel Peters
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Kristie Stumpf
Erin Titus
Melinda Titus
Sarah Scott
Holly Lane
Diane Hazlewood
Susan Denny
Susan Denny
Ariana Knight
Sarah Brennan
Melissa Phillips
Melissa Mahaffy
Kylie Ingerson
Kara Pitkin
Kimberly Mahaffy
Lorraine Gauthier
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Aubrey Fulton
Sarah Hathaway
Jennifer Paulus
Katherin Williams
Jessica Blodgett
Kathleen Fulton
Brittany Ward
Shelley Burgess
Ashley Hazlewood
Kyala Clegg
Julia Bashaw
Heather Pond
Isabelle Rodriguez
Napoleon - Mr. Ronald Jacobs
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Free Wine Tasting Fri. 8th, 6-9pm
Sat., July 9th, 2-8pm
U
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CANADA
“Remembering Our
Servicemen and
their families”
SALUTE TO THE MILITARY
Saturday, August 6th, 4 - 9 pm
American Legion Post 832
Proceeds to benefit
North Country Troopers Assisting Troops
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Historic Points of Interest
Most May be seen only froM the outside interior not open to the public
* asterisk denotes those open to the public
A. Stone House - Reflecting the classic
Georgian Architecture of the Loire
Valley, built of native limestone quarried on Carleton Island in 1815 by
Vincent LeRay De Chaumont. Owned
by Brett Slack.
O. Community Library - Built on the site of Cup and Saucer House. Planned
as a refuge for Napoleon Bonaparte.
P. Tibbetts Point - Named for Captain John Tibbett. Lighthouse Original
structure built in 1827, present building constructed in 1854.
B. Beechwood - Home of Mr. & Mrs.
Barry Mills. Built in 1835 by M.
Henry Crevolin, friend of the Chaumont family.
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C. Maple Grove - A modified Greek
Revival type house. Built by Charles
Smith toward the mid-nineteenth
century on land of Theophilus
Peugnet, French refugee. Owned by
Lynn & Bruce Taylor.
D. Headwater’s House - A limestone
house build in 1820, owned by Buell
Fuller for whom Fuller’s Bay was
named. For years the only house on
the Point. Now owned by Mr. & Mrs.
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E. Maclean House - Built of limestone
in Georgian manner.
F. General Delos Sacket - Built before
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of Dr. Avery Ainsworth. Built prior to
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Home of Mr. & Mrs. Alan Vail.
S.* Rosiere Cemetery - St. Vincent de Paul’s Cemetery.
Tombstones of early French settlers dating back to the
beginning of the 19th century.
Q.* Cape Vincent Fisheries & Aquarium - Built in 1856
as a grist mill, operated from the late 1800’s to 1965, a
Federal Fish Hatchery. Now operated by New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation.
T. Richard Esselstyne - Used as a meeting House and
Hospital during War of 1812.
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Handicapped Parking
Pancake Breakfast at
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5. Fire Hall - Pastries &
Bread Sold
6. Reviewing Stand
7. Food Concessions
8. EMS Services
9. Crafter Parking
10. Free Public Parking and
Free Shuttle To Downtown
Parade Route
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Why a “French” Festival?
Continued from page 3
After Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Joseph negotiated a small part of his
remaining valuables with
James Le Ray de Chaumont, a
naturalized American citizen,
for some 27,000 acres of land
in the North Country.
Napoleon was to join his elder
bother in America but chose to
surrender to the English and
suffered his second exile, this
time to the small island of St.
Helena. Joseph
and a cadre of
Bonapartists
are said to
have hatched
a plan to
s p i r i t
Napoleon
from St. Helena to Cape
Vincent.
Rumor has
it that the Cup and Saucer
House built by Count Pierre
Francoise Real (where the Cape
Vincent Community Library
stands today) had a never-occupied room in the cupola held
especially for Napoleon. Although Joseph made several
appearances there, the news of
Napoleon’s death in 1821
caused the conspiring exiles to
leave Cape Vincent. Only the
Peugnet
brothers
stayed,
Theophilus in the Cup and
Saucer House until it burned in
1867.
In 1835, Joseph Bonaparte
sold his remaining North
Country holdings to John La
Farge, another Frenchman.
Despite Napoleon himself
never making his way to the
North Country, Lake Bonaparte was part of Joseph’s tract
and carries the family name.
Other French names are obvious throughout the area.
James Le Ray de Chaumont
left his name to two townships
in the area. He was instrumental in the establishment of
mills, wharves and roads that
precipitated many French political refugees to settle in the
North Country. Le Ray built
the Stone House here in the
former Gravelly Point, for his
son, Vincent and named the
burgeoning village Cape Vincent in his honor. Le Ray de
Chaumont names are prolific
in the area as James held, at
one point or another, hundreds
of thousands of acres - Cape
Vincent for one son, Alexandria Bay for another, Theresa
for a daughter, even Plessis,
after the family dog.
While we honor and respect
all the French influence in our
history, it is not inappropriate
to choose Napoleon as an excellent ‘symbol’ to lead our
French Day Parade.
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