 The measured exploitation of the financial rewards their situation afforded them was the unspoken norm among high government officials (both in France as in England, c.f.the toleration of the contemporaneous Fox there).In any event it is not to be doubted that Arnaud in particular had the Canadians’ interest sincerely at heart, (Jean's rôle in matters relating to New-France faded soon after his posting, around 1750, as Commissioner at Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, where the La Portes also had extensive private investments).