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"Bestions," Lafontaine calls them: he found this form of the word in the old popular speech, whence also the term, tapisserie-a-bestions, applied to figured tapestry.
Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine, after having gone abroad during the winter of 1837-38, and after having been arrested on suspicion in November 1838, entered the parliament of Canada, formed, with Robert Baldwin as his colleague, the administration which ushered in full responsible government, and was knighted by Queen Victoria.
If the losses exceeded that sum, the individual claims were to be proportionally reduced. The necessary funds were to be raised on twenty-year debentures bearing interest at six per cent. LaFontaine introduced and explained the bill, and Baldwin supported it in a brief speech.
"Poo," said the Prince, still laughing, "take him do what you will with him;" then, as if suddenly recollecting himself, "But, Mr , you must be answerable for him he must be at hand if I want him." The gentleman who had so unexpectedly patronized me rose, and said, "Marshal, I promise." "Very well," said Davoust. "Lafontaine, desire supper to be sent up."
To this spot, where life would seem more restricted than elsewhere if it be possible for life indeed to become restricted a sort of aged philosopher had retired; an old man somewhat akin to Virgil's "Man equal to kings, and approaching the gods;" whereto Lafontaine might have added, "And, like the gods, content and at rest."
In 1843 Attorney-General Lafontaine presented a bill "for better serving the independence of the legislative assembly of this province," which became law in 1844 and formed the basis of all subsequent legislation in Canada. The question of the clergy reserves continued for some years after the union to perplex politicians and harass governments.
Gay-Lussac the chemist, Laplace the astronomer, Larrey the surgeon, de Suze the advocate, are here, and with them are Talma, Bellini, Rubini; de Balzac, Beaumarchais, Beranger; Moliere and Lafontaine, and scores of other men whose names and whose worthy labors are as familiar in the remote by-places of civilization as are the historic deeds of the kings and princes that sleep in the marble vaults of St.
Gibbs" he said as he wrote "I have the sprout of a notion that you and Mr. Lafontaine would be an ornament to a field-battery I'm about to take command of. I'd like to talk with you about that presently."
But death never comes to him that desires it, save in the fable of the worthy Lafontaine. In six hours I had accomplished the eighteen leagues between Pont-Boivoisin and Lyons, only stopping to change horses. I tore off my clothes and threw myself on the bed, where thirty hours before I had enjoyed all the delights of love. I hoped that the bliss I had lost would return to me in my dreams.
Accordingly he dissolved parliament in December, and the elections, which were hotly contested, resulted in the unequivocal condemnation of the Sherwood cabinet, and the complete success of the Liberal party led by LaFontaine and Baldwin.
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