History of Worcester and its people . French customers. (See biograjihies of C. Edmund Belisle, .AlexanderBeiisle and brothers). Guide Francais, an annual, published first in 19 1(1 li\ the BelislePrinting Company. Cafes.— It may be (.)f interest to note that the first French cafe herewas opened by Leon Robert in Washington Square; the second t)vAntoine Bachand at 311 Main street, and later at the corner of P)urnsideCourt and .South Bridge street: the third h\- Jose])h Beausoliel, at thecorner of Central and L^nion streets. These cafes were the meeting 3i6 HISTORY OF WORCESTER places of the me
History of Worcester and its people . French customers. (See biograjihies of C. Edmund Belisle, .AlexanderBeiisle and brothers). Guide Francais, an annual, published first in 19 1(1 li\ the BelislePrinting Company. Cafes.— It may be (.)f interest to note that the first French cafe herewas opened by Leon Robert in Washington Square; the second t)vAntoine Bachand at 311 Main street, and later at the corner of P)urnsideCourt and .South Bridge street: the third h\- Jose])h Beausoliel, at thecorner of Central and L^nion streets. These cafes were the meeting 3i6 HISTORY OF WORCESTER places of the men. and social centers of imjjortance for the Frenchpeople. Churches.—In 184G Rev. Zephirin Levesciue opened a Catholic Mis-sion in a hall on Main street, but after months the pastors healthfailed and he went to New Orleans, turning over the sum of $200 that hehad raised, to Bishop J. B. Fitzpatrick, of Boston. Afterward themoney was given to the parish in Millbury. then in charge of FatherLevesque, whose health was .ST. CHURCH. W , STREKT. In 1852 anotlicr effort was made to estaiilish a French church byRev. N. Mignault. Tlierc were only forty IVench families at that timein the city, and in order to concentrati their etf(jrts a .Society, St. JeanBaptiste, was organized July 8. ilu number was too limited, how-ever, and in 1854 the land that had heiu i)inchased at what is now street, with foiuidations partl\ constructed for a church,was deeded to Rev. \\. Ciil>son. of St. Johns t hurch. (See St. Anneshistory in this work). \otre Dame des Canadieus, Roman Citliolic. was founded in first mass was celebrated in Horticultural llall, .Sijit. \i, 1869, byRev. J. 1. Irimeau. the tirst jiastor. ihe first mass in the old brick AND ITS PEOPLE 317 church which stood on the prcsi-iU site of ilu- I>aiicr(jft Hotel was onJune 1, 1870. The i)arochiaI scIukjI was fuundcd in September, Notre JJanu- des C;ina(hcns ct-n
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