Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1838-1839
Artist: Jean-Joseph Girouard (1795-1855)
Medium: Pencil with charcoal and stumping
Dimensions: 27 x 21.2 cm (sheet, irregular)
Jean-Joseph Girouard Collection
National Archives of Canada, negative no. C-018454

Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine (1807-1864), jurist, member of the Legislative Assembly, Patriote, Prime Minister and Attorney General for Lower Canada under the Act of Union and Chief Justice of Lower Canada, was imprisoned on November 4, 1838, and freed without trial on December 13.