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of Appeals of Lower Canada, 105; receives baronetcy, 105; his rank as statesman and jurist, 105; his death, 105, 220; his conservative influence, 138; his views on Seigniorial Tenure question, 185, 187; as a constructive statesman, 236. =C= Sides against the government, 6; statesmanlike attitude towards Union of 1841, 16; forms alliance with Baldwin, 16, 97; forms ministry, 16; resigns, 17; called to power again in 1846, 18; standing as a statesman, 23; his party splits in two, 25-26; protests against Union Act of 1840, 96; his fight for ministerial responsibility, 97; long lease of power, 99; wins constitutional battle, 100; his retirement from politics, 132. =P= Refuses seat in Draper ministry, 72; joins Papineau's party, 78; supports him in his violent attitude towards government, 86; at meeting of Constitutional Committee, 88; his character, 109; ridiculed by the _Mercury_, 123; relations with Papineau in 1847 and after, 167-180; split in Liberal party causes retirement, 179-180; his farewell speech, 179. =R= Forms opposition party with Baldwin, Hincks, and others, 122. =Mc= Addresses revolutionary meetings, 328. =Md= Given seat in administration by Bagot, 18; resigns, 1843, 18; attacked by extreme Reformers, 22; forms administration with Baldwin, 30; elevated to the bench, 46-47. =Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Morgan, _Cel. Can._; Taylor, _Brit. Am._; David, _Biographie et Portraits_; Hincks, _Reminiscences_. =La Forest.= =F= Left in charge of Port Nelson, 346. =La Franchise, Sieur de.= =Ch= Letter from in Champlain's first narrative, 14. =La Galissonniere, Rolland-Michel Barren, Comte de.= Came to New France as administrator of the government until the arrival of the governor, Marquis de la Jonquiere. Returned to France, 1749; the same year appointed one of the commissioners on behalf of the French government, to settle the boundaries of Acadia. Head of the department of nautical charts at Paris. Commanded the French fleet at Minorca, 1756, and defeated the British under Admiral Byng. Died in Nemours, France, 1756. Is said to have furnished money and supplies to the Abbe de la Loutre to enable him to carry on his work in Acadia. =Index=: =WM= Foresaw danger from British colonies, 21. =Bib.=: _Memoire sur les Colonies de la France dans l'Amerique Septentrionale_. For biog., _see_ Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_; _Selections from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia_, ed. by Akins; Tyrrell, _Pa
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