Eugène Lafont, S.J., was a Belgian Jesuit priest, who became a missionary in India, where he became a noted scientist and the founder of the first Scientific Society in India.
A drawing of Father Lafont as a young man
Mons is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Panorama of the old town
Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church and the Belfry of Mons
Troops of the paramilitary Garde Civique fire on strikers near Mons during the Belgian general strike of 1893 (Le Petit Journal, May 1893)
Canadians entering Mons in 1918