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It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

We have been placed at The Act of Union in an exceptional situation, a minority situation, in the distribution of political power. If we have to succumb, we would at least succumb, is such a way to that we will earn respect.

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Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

Born: October 10, 1807
Died: February 26, 1864
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Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard dit La Fontaine, 1st Baronet, KCMG was a Canadian politician who served as the first Premier of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada. He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807. A jurist and statesman, La Fontaine was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1830. He was a supporter of Papineau and member of the Parti canadien (later the Parti patriote). After the severe consequences of the Rebellions of 1837 against the British authorities, he advocated political reforms within the new Union regime of 1841.

LOUIS-HIPPOLYTE LA FONTAINE

(Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard)