 Politically he is best remembered for his role in sanctioning the use of French in the Parliamentary records.The moment is captured in a painting by Charles Huot which hangs above the Speaker’s Chair in the present-day National Assembly of Quebec.In this speech, recorded in the "Quebec Gazette" on 31 January 1793, he asked for French and English to be given equal recognition in the House,

"Since the majority of our constituents are placed in a special situation, we are obliged to depart from the ordinary rules and forced to ask for the use of a language which is not that of the empire; but, being as fair to others as we hope they will be to us, we should not want our language eventually to banish that of His Majesty’s other subjects."