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Émilie Barthe was the daughter of Joseph-Guillaume Barthe, a lawyer, journalist and political figure in Canada East, and Louise-Adélaïde Pacaud, the sister of Édouard-Louis Pacaud.
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Her son, Armand Lavergne, is thought to be their illegitimate offspring. Later into her life she would become a Catholic nun. Beginning in 1878, Laurier had an "ambiguous relationship" with the then married Émilie Barthe.
Despite being married to Zoé Lafontaine, he maintained his relationship to Barthe as she relished literature and politics just as he did, while Lady Laurier was not an intellectual.
The two corresponded with letters. Among those letters was this passage from August 23, 1891: Since Laurier became the seventh Prime Minister of Canada on July 11, 1896, he could not resume his affair with her.
This appointment encouraged the family to move to Ottawa, where Barthe and Laurier could continue their relations. Sir Wilfrid Laurier began to realize the potential damage of the rumours, he returned Barthe"s letters to her and in 1901, he positioned Joseph Lavergne from Ottawa to Montreal.
Armand Renaud Lavergne is widely thought to be the illegitimate son between Émilie Barthe and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
When Renaud Lavergne was younger he bore an uncanny facial resemblance to Laurier. Émilie Barthe would eventually die on May 10, 1930. She was buried in Arthabaska.
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lieutenant was by his decision that on August 4, 1897, Joseph Lavergne, who been a Member of Parliament, was made a judge of the Superior Court for the district of Ottawa.
