Charles Thibault (lawyer)

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Charles Thibault (September 16th 1840 - January 2nd 1905) was a lawyer and a famous Québécois speaker.

Native of Saint-Alexandre d' Iberville, it supplements his traditional studies in 1860 and it aspires to a career in the Sacerdoce. It turns soon to the Droit and it is allowed with the Barreau of Quebec in 1865.

Not pleading often with the legal platform, it turns to the political platform and serves the Conservative party of the beginning of the confederation and combat the liberal party of Wilfrid Laurier.

Elected official alderman in 1877, he becomes high-civil servant in 1880-1881. He takes part in the colonization of the Cantons of the east and he with the confidence of John A. Macdonald. Thibaut travels much and it has excellent relationships to the Canadian clergy.

Extremely known for its eloquence, it was also proud of its acadian origins. Its verbal sparring matches often gave place to great stories and tales, and one comes to hear it with the Société Saint-Jean-Baptist of Montreal. In 1883, it publishes a biography of Sir Charles Tupper.

He perishes with Sutton in a railway accident in 1905. Its legend was propagated by the journalist Hector Berthelot. The recueuil of its speeches was published in 1903 and it appeared a long time like one of the eminent Canadian characters of the XIXe century.

Quotation

“O ground of Acadie! That of blood you drank! that tears sprinkled your plains! That sweats fertilized your furrows! Ground of love formerly, unhappy witness of iniquitous atrocities such as the world had never seen some before! ”,

the Acadian Monitor , quoted by Placid Gaudet, 1886.

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