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Joseph-Octave Plessis (1763-1825), the eleventh bishop and first archbishop of Québec City, left one of the most extensive personal libraries of his time, including nearly 700 titles and totalling some 3000 volumes. His collection includes books not only on theology and religion, but also on numerous other subjects that shed light on the intellectual and cultural outlook of this nineteenth century ecclesiastic, a figure profoundly attached to Catholic traditions, yet confronted by a Protestant colonial power and the liberal ideas of the Enlightenment.
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