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The occurrence at St Denis was certainly a political affair, a family at St Antoine opposed to the proceedings of W. Nelson, having been annoyed by the same mob that destroyed the house of Madame St Jacques a few hours before the shot was fired from her window. Special animosity was shown toward the Chouayens, those French Canadians who had refused to follow Papineau's lead.
For this they were assailed with some of the rhetoric which had hitherto been reserved for the 'Bureaucrats. To them was applied the opprobrious epithet of Chouayens a name which had been used by Étienne Parent himself in 1828 to describe those French Canadians who took sides with the government party.
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