St. Louis - Pain Court

["Alfred W. Tüting"]

The site pointed to earlier by Alan
(http://www.paincourt.ca/history.htm) gives the following description in
its French version:

 > Paroisse de l’Immaculée Conception de Pain Court

C’est la misère extrême des ancêtres qui a donné le jour au nom de Pain
Court. Les missionnaires disaient : « Je m’en vais dans la mission du
pain court », ou tout simplement : « Je m’en vais à Pain Court. » Et le
nom prit racine pour toujours... <<

It seems that the French speaking author doesn't have problems to quote
the term _pain court_ in the sense of smth like "short of bread"
(although it doesn't look like a real grammatical French rendering,
then). Maybe, 'short' bread (=small loafs of bread) actually was an
expression used to symbolize 'misère' (shortage of bread -> threat of
'famine')? "... panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie..."

Alfred