In Mail, how to reinstall a «Deleted message» folder trashed by error ?

Hi,
From Mail's sidebar, I deleted a «Deleted Message» folder that seemed to be a duplicate of the «Trash» folder (Corbeille in French).  I did that to fast ...  and I realize that all my deleted messages dissapeared.   I never really understyood these duplicated «Trash» and «Deleted Message» folders, so I should have paid more attention ... gurlp !
I then searched my hard disk to see where my actual «Deleted messages» folder was nested.  That folder was backed up in the cloud with CrashPlan, so I restored it to my desktop.  It was nested here: 
Users/MyUserName/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/Deleted Messages (Vidéotron)
I checked to be sure that the I had found the good folder.  I then closed Mail.  I moved the actual «Deleted messages» folder to the trash and replaced it with the one I restored from CrashPlan.
When I launched Mail while the restaored folder contained ± 4000 messages, Mail only displays 72. 
Somebody has a clue ?
Regards.
Robert Lespérance

The «Deleted Messages (Vidéotron).mbox» original folder that contains ±4000 deleted messages is shown in this picture (click here).  As you see the messages are distributed in many folders and sub-folders.  
I want to import thoses messages back in Mail ... and as I said, it doesn't work.  Is there somebody out there that understands my problem ?

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