Isaac de Razilly, having been selected by the government of his cousin Cardinal Richelieu to restore to France her Acadian possessions, had become governor of Acadia in 1632.

Bringing with him forty families, Razilly had settled at La Hève (near present day Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) on the southern coast of the island, dispossessing a Scotsman.

Charles de Menou d'Aulnay is one of his able assistants, borrowing funds, hiring ships, and recruiting men for the regular ocean crossings to and from France for the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and a private company, Razilly-Condonnier.

These companies have divergent interests at times which is to result in costly competition.

D'Aulnay, born at Château de Charnizay, Indre-et-Loire, his father being a high ranking official for Louis XIII, is a member of the French nobility who has at various times been a sea captain and a lieutenant in the French navy to his cousin Razilly.