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Notebook

Notebook of Louis-Joseph Cartier

Date 1865-1866

Dimensions1 textual record ; 16 x 10 cm

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Other Documents

Origin Quebec, Canada

Object NumberM2006.112.2.6

DivisionArchives - Textual Archives

CollectionMcCord

CreditGift of Louis-Joseph Cartier Family in memory of Cécile Richard and Marthe Richard-Blanchard This document was digitized thanks to the generous support of Sun Life Financial

Scope and Content

This "tête-bêche" notebook, filled by Louis-Joseph Cartier when he was a student of rhetoric at Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, chronicles the interests of this adolescent from a bourgeois family, his education and developing mind, and piety. It consists mainly of notes about the great authors, a list of popes, "choice words from Father Lacordaire" and home remedies (for treating a toothache).

Notes

Language: The document is in French.

Last update: February 15, 2019

Status

Not on view

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