1. Louis-Joseph Papineau's father was Joseph Papineau, a politician in Quebec.
14 Facts About Louis-Joseph Papineau
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Louis-Joseph Papineau first studied in Montreal, at the College Saint-Raphael from 1796 onwards, then at the Petit Seminaire de Quebec, from 1802 to 1804.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau was then sent to study at the Petit Seminaire de Quebec, where he completed his secondary studies.
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In 1808 Louis-Joseph Papineau was elected member of parliament for Kent before being admitted to the Bar of Lower Canada in 1810.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau was part of the committee that wrote the Ninety-Two Resolutions passed by the Legislative Assembly on February 21,1834.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada on January 21,1815.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau led the committee that organized the boycott of essentially all British imports to Lower Canada.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau participated in the creation of the Parti rouge.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau was defeated in 1851 but elected in a by-election in 1852.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau did not present himself again in the elections of 1854.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau retired from public life and reappeared only once to hold a conference at the Institut Canadien de Montreal in December 1867.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau died at his manor in Montebello, Quebec near the modern Chateau Montebello on September 23,1871.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau, himself, was named a National Historic Person in 1937.
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Louis-Joseph Papineau married Julie Bruneau in Quebec City on April 29,1818.