Louis-Joseph Papineau
Lower Canada politician, lawyer, and seigneur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 20th-century Canadian parliamentarian, see Louis-Joseph Papineau (Canadian parliamentarian).
Louis-Joseph Papineau (October 7, 1786 – September 23, 1871), born in Montreal, Quebec, was a politician, lawyer, and the landlord of the seigneurie de la Petite-Nation. He was the leader of the reformist Patriote movement before the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838. His father was Joseph Papineau, also a politician in Quebec. Papineau was the eldest of eight children[1] and was the grandfather of the journalist Henri Bourassa, founder of the newspaper Le Devoir.