Lacroix would become a merchant himself in the town and helped defend it during the American invasion of 1775–6. In 1776, he settled at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (later Laval), where he became involved in the fur trade.
Lacroix did not lack money: as a wedding present his mother gave him an advance of 3,000 livres on his inheritance (one third of which went into the community of property with Françoise-Pélagie) while Lacroix himself gave his wife a dower…
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