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Curé Labelle Seated, Head Shaved

Colourized photograph of Curé Labelle seated at a desk, holding a letter. His right hand rests on the desk, and his left hand rests on the arm of his chair.

Photographer: Unknown
Date: Around 1880
Coloring: Dominique Beauregard, 2015
Source: Private collection of Dominique Beauregard

Arthur Buies said of his good friend: “To be able to get through the work he got through in 20 years, he had to be a man of many parts: a priest, a colonizer, a politician, a man of ideas, devoted, indomitable, unselfish, fiery, and indulgent to the point of ignoring the limits of indulgence.”