Illustrious visitors' commentaries on Quebec

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Throughout history, Quebec received the visit of individuals who were already or would later become famous on the international scene. Luckily for us, some of those illustrious personages took notes of their travel and their conservation makes it possible for us today to get their impressions, feelings and opinions of our country and our people at various moments in history.

Pehr Kalm, 1749

Bougainville, 1757

Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831

Alexis de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian

Biography in Wikipedia: Alexis de Tocqueville


Charles Dickens, 1842

Henry David Thoreau, 1853

Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and philosopher


Charles de Gaulle, 1967