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Show I WRITElToF R AREGIFT V,A0 VIMSSS. MAn" U .r Ills Work. VT.e. TTrlll.n I. th. Irnch Uotnate lr.llr Aclnilr..! la Canada. s.urnpa aad tha Inll.J tUlaa, Felix Gabriel ilarchand, prime minuter min-uter of tbe province of Quebec, died last week la Montreal. For alx year ne held the oulco of premier and for a long tlmo he a the leader of the opposition op-position In the quebec parliament Mr. Marchnnd was born at St. Johna In 1S32 and wn educated at St. Ityoclnthe tollcgo. He was distinguished not only for bl abilities a a statesman, but for hi rare gift as a poet. Ills poetical works wcro wlrtten In French end have a wide circle of readers In this country and also In Paris, whore they are greatly admired and praised riXIX O. MAKCHAND. by men ot letters. Although a liberal and a friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurlor, Mr. Marchand rca a thorough believer In Hrltlsh Institutions and proved bis loyallty by Irndlcc a regiment of the mllltla agnnst the Fcnlau rnlders In 1870. Ho mude hi debut In politic In ISCT. when ho was first elected to the legislative assembly. From that time until ten years ago ho was returned re-turned at each general election without with-out opposition. In liOO ho bad an up. ponent, but ho wa elected by an overwhelming over-whelming majority. Ho was re-elected In 1892. Mr. Marchnnd was deeply Interested In-terested In educational progress, n characteristic made manifest by tho little violet button he ever vtoro upon tho Inpel of his cost This was tho n ft of Franco and entitled him to be rnne.1 "officer ot public Instruction." Ho was a member of tho Koynl Society of Canada, n friend of sclcnco nnd n gentleman acceptable In all ways. |