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public grants of money and private help, to have repub- 

 lished in 1855 the Cramoisie collection of the " Kela- 

 tions des Jesuites" and the four volumes ofMSS. which 

 Honble Jean Blanchet induced the Mousseau Govern- 

 ment to edit. 



More than once the writer of these lines has had 

 occasion to thank the learned man for valuable inform- 

 ation freely tendered on Canadian topics. The his- 

 torian Parkman, also, is not slow in giving the Abbe" 

 due acknowledgement for documents used by him in 

 writing his late volume, "Wolfe and Montcalm"; and 

 one of the pleasant thoughts of the old antiquary during 

 his failing years, was the recognition he received from 

 the founder of the Royal Society of Canada, Lord Lome, 

 by the diploma conferred, placing him amongst the 

 twenty original members of the Trench section of the 

 society. The following, though not all of them bear the 

 author's signature, are his chief works : 



1. Notes Biographiques surMonseigneurde Laval : A. Cote 

 et Cie, 1848. 



2. Notes sur Pile d'Orleans, A. Cote et Cie, 1850. 



3. Etudes et Kecherches Biographiques sur le Chevalier 

 Noel Brutart de Sillery, 1855. 



4. Notes sur Michel Sarrasin, Medecin du Roy a Quebec, 

 1856. 



5. Le Naufrage de l'Auguste, 1860. 



6. Notices surles Explorations de Soto, Joliette, Marquette 

 et La Salle, 1861. 



I, Eloge Historique de M. le Marquis de Montcalm — 

 (annota) Extrait du Moniteur de France, 1861. 



8. Etudes Biographiques sur M. Jean Raimbault, Archi- 

 pretre, 1870. 



9. Notice sur M. Joseph 0. Leprohon, 1870. 



10. Etudes Biographiques sur le Colonel M. Dambourges, 

 1875. 



II. Esquisses du Service Postal, 1759-1775-1875. 



12. Etude Historique sur le Juge Adam Mabane, 1884. 



Also an innumerable series of articles in the press. 



We learn that his vast collection of MSS., notes and auto- 

 graphs, medals, engravings, and splendid library of historical 

 works was bequeathed by him to the Seminary of Nicolet, P. Q. 



•Quebec, Nov. 30, 1889. 



