On his return he found that Fort Crèvecoeur was in ruins, and that Tonty and the few men who had been faithful were gone, he knew not where.
He rode as many miles as La Salle went on foot in that memorable heart-breaking journey from Fort Crèvecoeur to Fort Frontenac.
It was on the last day of the winter that preceded the invasion of the Iroquois, that Father Hennepin, with his two companions, Accau and Du Gay, had set out from Fort Crèvecoeur to explore the Illinois to its mouth.
Embarking with his followers in two canoes, he made his way upward amid the drifting ice; while the faithful Italian, with two or three honest men and twelve or thirteen knaves, remained to hold Fort Crèvecoeur in his absence.
When he returned to the Illinois in 1680, on his second trip, Crèvecoeur was in ruins, and Tonty and his men gone.
La Salle now found himself at the head of a mutinous company stranded at Fort Crèvecoeur on the Illinois, facing a winter with practically no provisions.
The Countess was lodged in the Convent of the Ursulines, and with the Lady Abbess and the Countess of Crèvecoeur attended the presence of the Duke.
The Countess of Crèvecoeur whispered to Isabelle, that perhaps the successful competitor might prove one who should reconcile to obedience.
And yet the Crèvecoeur cameo had puzzled wiser heads than Mrs. Dalliba's, adept though she was.
Meanwhile to all but you, my readers, the Crèvecoeur cameo remains as great a mystery as ever.
While Father Xavier was compiling this remarkable piece of authorship, the Iroquois descended in warlike array upon the somewhat friendly disposed Illinois Indians, in whose midst Fort Crèvecoeur had been built.
No other skeleton among all the buried braves unearthed by scientific research at Crèvecoeur had been found with a gem for a heart--a gem that glittered not on the breast, but within a chest hooped with human bone.
Supposing the Frenchmen at Crèvecoeur were prepared to join the invading army immediately upon its arrival, they resolved to tomahawk them all.
Here he learned that his garrison at Crèvecoeur was dispersed and the fort destroyed.
It will be remembered that late in February, 1680, La Salle left Crèvecoeur for Frontenac, to obtain supplies.
They reached Crèvecoeur about the 1st of February.
Therefore, they call it the ford of Crèvecoeur [Break-heart].
But here at Crèvecoeur it is bad crossing any way you go; also that day it is already afternoon.
They left Fort Crèvecoeur on the last day of February, twenty-four hours before La Salle started northward, and entered the Mississippi on the 12th of March.
He took the forge, and tools, and all that was left in Crèvecoeur into the very heart of the Indian village and built a long lodge, shaped like the wigwams of the Illinois.
Boisrondet, the friars, and L'Esperance hurried to tell Tonty; and thus Fort Crèvecoeur and the partly finished ship had to be abandoned.
The men that Tonty had sent to tell him about the destruction of Fort Crèvecoeur were followed by others who brought word that the deserters had destroyed his forts at the St. Joseph River and Niagara, and carried off all the goods.
La Salle saw the ruins of Fort Crèvecoeur and his deserted vessel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vecoeur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
