François Lemaître, Québec, 1838
Artist: Girouard, Jean-Joseph (1794-1855)
Medium: pencil with opaque white on tracing paper on laid paper
Dimensions: 25.5 x 19 cm (sheet, irregular)
Jean-Joseph Girouard Collection
National Archives of Canada, negative no. C-018415

François Lemaî (born in 1798) was a printer, editor, owner and founder of newspapers. On January 8, 1838, the presses and type of the printing press of the newspaper La Quotidienne were confiscated and Lemaître was arrested. He was freed on April 12.