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[[Image:Papineau-daguerre.jpeg|thumb|left|[[Louis-Joseph Papineau]], lawyer, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada]][[Image:Maison-papineau.jpg|thumb|The Maison Papineau, at 440 rue Bonsecours, built in 1785 and restored by Éric McLean in 1964]]The illustrious patriot of Canada, [[Louis Joseph Papineau]], whose name will remain forever prominent while her history endures, was born in the city of [[w:Montreal|Montreal]], on the 7th October, 1786, in one of those long, low stone-houses, then so common, on what was then little [[w:St. James Street|St. James street]] — now Nos. 54 and 56 — near the top of the St. Lawrence Hill. His father, [[w:Joseph Papineau|Joseph Papineau]], [[w:notary|notary]] public, descended from a family that had long before emigrated from [[w:fr:Montigny (Deux-Sèvres)|Montigny]], in the province of [[w:Poitou|Poitou]] (now the Département des [[w:Deux-Sèvres|Deux-Sèvres]]), France, was a man of majestic stature, who had served with high honor many years in the Provincial Parliament, always conspicuous as a stern and foremost supporter of popular measures in opposition to the petty tyrannies of the time. His mother, of the [[Cherrier]] family of [[w:Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec|St. Denis]], was sister to the mother of the Hon. [[w:Denis-Benjamin Viger|D. B. Viger]], and to the mother of Monseigneur [[w:Jean-Jacques Lartigue|Lartigue]], the first [[w:Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal|Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal]].
[[Image:Papineau-daguerre.jpeg|thumb|left|[[Louis-Joseph Papineau]], lawyer, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada]][[Image:Maison-papineau.jpg|thumb|The Maison Papineau, at 440 rue Bonsecours, built in 1785 and restored by Éric McLean in 1964]]The illustrious patriot of Canada, [[Louis-Joseph Papineau|Louis Joseph Papineau]], whose name will remain forever prominent while her history endures, was born in the city of [[w:Montreal|Montreal]], on the 7th October, 1786, in one of those long, low stone-houses, then so common, on what was then little [[w:St. James Street|St. James street]] — now Nos. 54 and 56 — near the top of the St. Lawrence Hill. His father, [[w:Joseph Papineau|Joseph Papineau]], [[w:notary|notary]] public, descended from a family that had long before emigrated from [[w:fr:Montigny (Deux-Sèvres)|Montigny]], in the province of [[w:Poitou|Poitou]] (now the Département des [[w:Deux-Sèvres|Deux-Sèvres]]), France, was a man of majestic stature, who had served with high honor many years in the Provincial Parliament, always conspicuous as a stern and foremost supporter of popular measures in opposition to the petty tyrannies of the time. His mother, of the [[Cherrier]] family of [[w:Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec|St. Denis]], was sister to the mother of the Hon. [[w:Denis-Benjamin Viger|D. B. Viger]], and to the mother of Monseigneur [[w:Jean-Jacques Lartigue|Lartigue]], the first [[w:Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal|Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal]].


His school days were passed in the [[w:Petit Séminaire of Quebec|seminary of Quebec]], where his name had preceded him as a boy of remarkable aptitude and promise, which was fully maintained during his [[w:Scholasticism|scholastic]] term; for, as if thus early impressed with the destinies of a glorious future, and already feeling its responsibilities, he studied deep in the accumulation of knowledge as the foundation of after acquirements. Not content with devotion to the usual hours of study, he sacrificed to books those hours of recreation or rest that the frivolity of youth claims as prerequisite.
His school days were passed in the [[w:Petit Séminaire of Quebec|seminary of Quebec]], where his name had preceded him as a boy of remarkable aptitude and promise, which was fully maintained during his [[w:Scholasticism|scholastic]] term; for, as if thus early impressed with the destinies of a glorious future, and already feeling its responsibilities, he studied deep in the accumulation of knowledge as the foundation of after acquirements. Not content with devotion to the usual hours of study, he sacrificed to books those hours of recreation or rest that the frivolity of youth claims as prerequisite.
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