Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Lusignan

Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Lusignan (27 September 1843 at Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec – 5 January 1893) was a French-Canadian writer.

Life[]

His parents were Jean-Baptiste Lusignan, a merchant, and Onésime Masse. He was educated at and studied theology there and at Montreal Seminary. Judging after three years that he had no vocation for the Catholic Church, he studied law at St-Hyacinthe and at Laval University, Quebec, and practised in the former city for a few years.

He contributed to several newspapers and was chief editor (1865–68) of Le Pays, the principal organ of the French-Canadian Liberal party at the time. Lusignan published (1872), as a continuation of a similar work by , a "Digest of Reported cases"; "Coups d'oeil et coups de plume" (1884). A leading francophone author, he was elected (1885) a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

References[]

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Lusignan". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
  • Maclean Rose, Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography (Toronto, 1886);
  • À la memoire d'Alphonse Lusignan (Montreal, 1892)

External links[]

• (in French) University of Laval page