He attended the college of Saint-Hyacinthe where he studied, in addition to academic subjects, drawing and music. In June of 1838 at the age of 17, he joined his father in political exile in Albany and Saratoga Springs. He worked there for some time as a clerk in the office of the American lawyer Porter before returning in 1839 to Paris where his father had taken refuge. He will continue there until 1845 studies at the Paris School of Medicine and at the Hotel-Dieu as a free student. Supervised by Professor Robert, the young intern frequently the operating rooms of the Beaujon hospital. During this long period of emotional instability of the Parisian exile, the relations between him and his father gradually revealed themselves to be problematic, even conflicting.
Back in the country, he brilliantly passed his admission exams before the Medical Bureau of Montreal and obtained a doctor-surgeon license. He opened his practical on Craig Street (now Saint-Antoine) in Old Montreal and also held the chair of botany at McGill University. Suffering from mood disorders, he soon had to give up both teaching and his medical practice. On his occasion of the of his younger brother Gustave in 1851, he made the decision to enter the novitiate in Ottawa. His psychological health will gradually deteriorate. His religious community entrusted him to the care of the Brothers Hospitaliers of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Lyon where he remained until his death.
Back in the country, he brilliantly passed his admission exams before the Medical Bureau of Montreal and obtained a doctor-surgeon license. He opened his practical on Craig Street (now Saint-Antoine) in Old Montreal and also held the chair of botany at McGill University. Suffering from mood disorders, he soon had to give up both teaching and his medical practice. On his occasion of the of his younger brother Gustave in 1851, he made the decision to enter the novitiate in Ottawa. His psychological health will gradually deteriorate. His religious community entrusted him to the care of the Brothers Hospitaliers of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Lyon where he remained until his death.
He attended the college of Saint-Hyacinthe where he studied, in addition to academic subjects, drawing and music. In June of 1838 at the age of 17, he joined his father in political exile in Albany and Saratoga Springs. He worked there for some time as a clerk in the office of the American lawyer Porter before returning in 1839 to Paris where his father had taken refuge. He will continue there until 1845 studies at the Paris School of Medicine and at the Hotel-Dieu as a free student. Supervised by Professor Robert, the young intern frequently the operating rooms of the Beaujon hospital. During this long period of emotional instability of the Parisian exile, the relations between him and his father gradually revealed themselves to be problematic, even conflicting.
Back in the country, he brilliantly passed his admission exams before the Medical Bureau of Montreal and obtained a doctor-surgeon license. He opened his practical on Craig Street (now Saint-Antoine) in Old Montreal and also held the chair of botany at McGill University. Suffering from mood disorders, he soon had to give up both teaching and his medical practice. On his occasion of the of his younger brother Gustave in 1851, he made the decision to enter the novitiate in Ottawa. His psychological health will gradually deteriorate. His religious community entrusted him to the care of the Brothers Hospitaliers of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Lyon where he remained until his death.
Back in the country, he brilliantly passed his admission exams before the Medical Bureau of Montreal and obtained a doctor-surgeon license. He opened his practical on Craig Street (now Saint-Antoine) in Old Montreal and also held the chair of botany at McGill University. Suffering from mood disorders, he soon had to give up both teaching and his medical practice. On his occasion of the of his younger brother Gustave in 1851, he made the decision to enter the novitiate in Ottawa. His psychological health will gradually deteriorate. His religious community entrusted him to the care of the Brothers Hospitaliers of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Lyon where he remained until his death.
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