Born at Vieugy (Haute-Savoie), July 12, 1829.
Taking of the habit at Notre-Dame de l’Osier, January 24, 1848.
Perpetual oblation at Notre-Dame de l’Osier, February 8, 1852. (no. 256)
Died at Notre-Dame de l’Osier, February 9, 1852.
François Plottier was born at Vieugy in the diocese of Annecy on July 12, 1829. He entered the novitiate of Notre-Dame de l’Osier on January 24, 1848. We do not know the exact date of his first vows. At the General Council session of July 7, 1849, he was admitted to vows “with a favourable report” and to five year vows on September 4, 1850, with the following observations: Admitted was “Brother Plottier, the tailor, who was acting as porter at l’Osier. Although his first vows had long expired, they wanted to wait to present him for five year vows until this brother of rather difficult character, flighty and careless of his time, had shown a certain improvement in his conduct.”
He made his perpetual vows at Notre-Dame de l’Osier on the eve of his death. He died on February 9, 1852. Father Burfin, the superior of the community, did not say a word about this in his letters to Father Tempier on February 5 and 10 and on March 10. In a letter to Father Santoni, the provincial of Canada, Bishop de Mazenod wrote on March 12 of that year: “…We have lost three brothers in one month; they are the lay brothers Plottier and Favier and the scholastic brother Alexander Silvy, all of them died professed and like angels.” (Oblate Writings I, vol. 2, no. 164, p. 40)
In the Personnel Registry of 1862, following this name there are biographical details that do not coincide with what contemporary documents tell us. In the oblations registry as well it is mistakenly recorded that he made his perpetual vows on February 14, 1852, the eve of his death. There is no dossier on him in the General Archives.
Yvon Beaudoin, o.m.i.
