| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Lusignan |
 | | 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, a paper the attitude of which in politico-religious questions, notably the so-called undue influence of the clergy in politics, was frequently at variance with the views of ecclesiastical authority. |
 | | He was an ardent patriot and a thorough student of the French tongue, ever zealous by his criticism and by his example to preserve its purity. |
 | | All his Canadian contemporaries looked upon him as a master of the language, his lexicographical erudition being unrivalled in Canada. |
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