It is in this region, which is located in the ancient French province of Anjou, in the small village of TURQUANT which is located on the south shore of the La Loire River and just a few kilometers east of Saumur. It is a pleasant village of wine makers with its town square full of large trees and its church dating back to the 15th Century. It is in this church dedicated to Saint-Aubin, an ancient bishop of Angers, that Francois Nau, son of Jehan Nau, wine maker, was baptized on Sunday 14 January 1646. His sister Madeleine was baptized on 25 October 1647.

Francois's father, Jehan, died on 11 December 1656 of an "oppression of the chest". On 21 October 1657, Francois' mother, Urbanne Marie Pillet, died. What happened then to Francois and his sister who were orphans at age 11 and 10 respectively. Were they adopted by relatives or friends? In what conditions did they live? We do not know anything of this period, but it is known that at the age of 20, Francois decided to leave his birthplace to settle in New-France.

In 1666, he boarded the sail boat Le Saint Jean-Baptiste with 34 other passengers and 35 crew members. The ship, piloted by Captain Pierre Fillye, sailed for the new world from the port of La Rochelle on 17 May 1666.

On 11 August 1666, the sailing ship Le Saint-Jean-Baptiste anchored opposite Quebec at the mouth of the Saint-Charles River. Francois Nau disembarked and left immediately by canoe for the Manor of Lotinville with his master Bertrand Chesnay de la Garenne. There was no road and no bridge over the Montmorency River. Having reached Ange-Gardien, he had to paddle up the Lotinville River, up to the embankment in front of the Manor of the Seigneur de Lotinville.

It is here, at the Manor, that Francois became a servant or hired hand with eight other colleagues. They contributed to making the domain one of the most beautiful of the region. The domain measured 6 arpents (350 meters or 1200 feet) wide. Bernard Chestnay was one of the most prosperous bourgeois of the colony. The second farm to the east belonged to the Jobidon Family. One of the daughters, Marguerite, who was only 5 years old when Francois arrived, would become his first wife. She was fifteen when they married on 20 July 1676.

On 17 March 1678, the Seigneur Jean Toupin, Sieur Du Sault, cedes, before Notary Gilles Rageot, a farm of 3 arpents (175 meters) by 40 (2338 meters), in the seigneurie recently created under the name of Belair dite la Pointe-aux-Ecureuils, to Francois Nau. His two friends, Pierre Groleau and Pierre Grenon, each obtained a concession.

Francois's concession is adjacent and west of the seigniorial domain. The domain measured 7.8 arpents from the river by 40 arpents. It was located across the church of Les Ecureuils and the road of the manor that leads to the river. The manor was situated close to the cliff across from the church. Francois's farm was to the west of the current rue du Couvent. In this local Francois erected a first house with narrow windows and logs squared by ax. In 1679, he settled his wife, Marguerite Jobidon and his son Francois, in their new home. The oldest son, Jean, had died soon after birth in 1677. All his children, up to 1687, the year his wife Marguerite died of typhus, were born in this house. His last child, Michel, had died shortly before her own death. Marguerite was 26 when she died. The children that survived their mother include Francois (8 years), Genevieve (5 years), Marguerite-Ursule (3 years) and Jean-Francois (22 months). Marguerite, the mother, was buried on 27 November 1687 in Neuville Cemetery.

After the death of his first wife, Francois Nau moved to Deschambault. He is listed in the Census as living in the Seigneurie de Deschambault. He is said to be a widower with 4 young children. He is the owner of a building and has Pierre Groleau and Antoine Bussiere as neighbors. On 01 July 1688, Francois, then 42 years, married his second wife Marie-Therese Chaille who was 21 years and a native of Beauport. They had nine children.

On O3 May 1696, Seigneur Jacques-Alexis de Fleury Deschambault cedes officially to Francois Nau a farm of 3 arpents by 30 and another to his son, Francois, who would be 17 at the end of the month. A few years later, Francois Nau, father, moved a little further to the west on a new farm granted on 08 August 1704 by Francois Chavigny, Sieur de la Chevrotiere. This plot of land measured 3 arpents by 40 and was located next to the seigniorial domain of La Chevrotiere and the new St-Antoine Chapel. He started again clearing his new land. It is on this farm that Francois passed away at the age of 63. He was buried on 20 March 1709 in the small cemetery of the St-Antoine Chapel.