DCB/DBC Mobile beta  CRISAFY, ANTOINE DE, Marquis de Crisafy,
officer in the colonial regular troops, governor of Trois-
Rivières, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. at Messina
(Sicily), son of Mathieu de Crisafy and Françoise de Grimaldi;
buried 6 May 1709 at Trois-Rivières.  Antoine de Crisafy had
acquired the rank of lieutenant-colonel and commanded an
infantry regiment in the army of the Duc de Vivonne, marshal of
France, when Sicily revolted against the Spaniards. He was
“disabled in one arm” at the capture of Descalette. He had
prevailed upon his younger brother, Thomas*, a knight of Malta,
to join the revolt, and they both had to flee their native
island; this cost them the confiscation of all their assets,
which were considerable. They went to the principality of
Monaco, which belonged to the Grimaldi family and where they had
estates.  According to certain authors the Crisafy brothers were
cast into the Bastille in 1683 (no doubt as the result of a
brawl), and were soon released on condition that