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Garneau

[ French gar-noh ]

noun

  1. Fran·çois Xa·vier [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, gz, a, -, vyey], 1809–66, Canadian historian.


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I, p. 440, treats the statement of Garneau somewhat slightingly.

So excellent a historian as Garneau gives credit to this story.

Les affaires font l'homme, as old Professor Garneau used to say at college.

Garneau, who quotes this passage, adds: "One tribe of them that had counted its warriors by hundreds was now reduced to thirty."

Le Canada franais avait perdu ses Ictlres de noblesse; Garneau les lui a rendues.

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