[From Quebec Morning Chronicle.} 



BRIGHTON, SCARBOROUGH, VERSAILLES, AND THE 

 LION MOUNT OF WATERLOO. 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 



HEAD BEFORE THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC^ 

 27TH NOVEMBER, 1882, BY J. M. LEMOINE, F. R. S. C. 



" The winter course of Lectures was opened with 

 dclat last night at the rooms of the Literary and Histo- 

 rical Society, by the President, J. M. LeMoine. We are 

 enabled to-day to give his interesting lecture. His sub- 

 ject was " Reminiscenses of Travel " in which he dealt 

 with Brighton, Scarbro', Versailles, and the field of 

 Waterloo." 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



" I feel grateful, for the presence, this night, in this 

 room, of such a numerous and distinguished assemblage, 

 at the opening of our winter course of lectures. May I 

 gather from the circumstance an indication, if not a 

 proof of an increasing interest in and sympathy with 

 the efforts of this Society to promote culture, by pro- 

 viding intellectual amusement for its members. 



My special line of studies had naturally induced me 

 to select for this occasion a subject calculated to fur- 

 ther more immediately one of the chief object contem- 

 plated by this Institution, the prosecution of resear- 

 ches bearing on American and Canadian annals. Some 

 material had already, with this view, been garnered 



