Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière, though to keep political favour with the British he never used the title. He was seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud. He was the Speaker of the House of Commons in Lower Canada who saw to it that the French language was recognised as equal to English in the Quebec Parliament, where a painting of him giving the speech still hangs above the Speaker's chair.
Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière
Charles Huot's depiction of Lotbinière giving his famous speech in Le débat sur les langues, 1793
Charlotte (Munro) Chartier de Lotbinière, the mother of Lotbinière's three children
Mrs Marie Charlotte Bingham, wife of William Bingham
Rigaud is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent region. It is located at the junction of the Ottawa River and the Rigaud River, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of downtown Montreal and 130 kilometres (81 mi) east of Ottawa. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 7,854.
The church of Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud
François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil
Rigaud Bridge c. 1910
Rigaud Mountain