Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
- Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière (August 31, 1748 – January 1, 1822), 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière, though to keep political favour with the British he never used the title.
- He was seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud.
- He was the Speaker of the House of Commons in Lower Canada who saw to it that the French language was recognised as equal to English in the Quebec Parliament, where a painting of him giving the speech still hangs above the Speaker's chair.
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