Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1786)

Louis-Joseph Papineau

Lower Canada politician, lawyer, and seigneur

Louis-Joseph Papineau, 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…