Mont Michel is a city in the Province of Quebec. During the Crisis Years, Louis Papineau launched the Papineau Revolt in Mont Michel in September 1839. He was able to raise an army of 3,000 Quebecois Patriotes, with an additional 800 joining him from Nova Scotia. Papineau then led his army in an attack on Quebec City on 21 September, which was defeated by Governor Henry Scott.
Sobel's source for Papineau's revolt in Mont Michel is his son Francois Papineau's biography My Father: His Cause was Just (Mexico City, 1854).