The attorney general I believe who started the "red scare" is Robert K.Murray.
You can go to this site to get information on red scare and those involved.
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Primarily, they came from Parisian, Norman, and west-central commoner families. By 1672, the population of New France had risen to 6,700 people, a marked increase from the population of 3,200 people in 1663.