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The English spoken in Jersey is far purer than the 

 French, which among the uneducated amounts to a 

 species of patois and still the legislative wisdom of the 

 island, by a large majority of votes, upheld the French ; 

 their loyalty is above suspicion. Mr. Faucher recalls 

 with evident satisfaction the encouraging words uttered 

 at Montreal and Quebec, in favor of the French idiom, 

 the language of Voltaire, Kacine, Bossuet, Chateau- 

 briand, by the illustrious statesmen connected with 

 the administration of Canada — Lords Dufferin, Lome, 

 Lansdowne, without forgetting our late administrator, 

 the Earl of Derby. The little work of Mr. Faucher 

 challenges investigation at the hands of every candid 

 reader. 



Quebec, Nov. 16, 1893. 



