To him domestic life is the summum bonum of being.

His four walls are the best thing which the world has to offer, except the cheerful and sacred communion of the Mass, and his dismissal from life itself under the blessing of his priest and with the promise of a good immortality.
Jean Jacques Barbille had the French Canadian life of pageant, pomp, and place extraordinarily developed.

His love of history and tradition was abnormal.

A genius, he was, within an inch, a tragedy to the last button.

Probably the adventurous spirit of his forefathers played a greater part in his development and in the story of his days than anything else.