George-Barthélemy Faribault

After attending a school taught by a Scottish veteran of Wolfe's army, he completed by personal efforts the course preparatory to the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1811.

In 1822, he entered the civil service, attaining in 1832 the rank of assistant clerk of the Legislative Assembly, an office he continued to hold after the union of the Canadas (1841) until 1855, when ill-health forced him to resign.

Passionately fond of his country and of its past glories, he spent all his leisure in collecting documents and books pertaining to Canadian history.

In 1859, he realized the long-postponed plan, conceived in 1761 by Montcalm's companions in arms, of erecting a memorial tablet over the soldier's grave.

The epitaph written by the French Academy at the time the subject was first brought up and approved by William Pitt, was duly inscribed.