(Louis-Nazaire Bégin was succeeded by Michel-Thomas Labrecque). Laflèche called him "one of the main causes of the religious difficulties that have arisen over the past 30 years in the province of Quebec". At this point he experienced a period of doubt. He refused the parish of Notre-Dame-de-L'Annonciation, in L'Ancienne-Lorette, even though he had requested it be kept for him, and even considered entering the orders. His health tormenting him, he retired to a country retirement house for priests, the Ermitage, he had built in 1890 on the familial estate in Saint-Nicolas, right next to the 1866 Chapel. Pâquet had inherited a good sum from his uncle, and was a skilled investor himself, so that he lived without need. After his death in early 1900, he was buried in the seminary's chapel, the reconstruction of which he had financed after a fire in 1888. Legacy Pâquet helped secure the status of Université Laval in the eyes of Rome. He remained all his life a controversial public figure, so that both his strong points and his shortcomings were widely known. Although an influential, pious man with a deep respect for his offices, he was also domineering and tended to have strong disagreements with just about everybody he worked alongside: "he gave advice, but above all he liked to have his advice followed." Primarily an ideologue, he had fairly little interest in scholarly debate. Most of Pâquet's papers accumulated during his functions at the seminary and university are kept at the former as the Fonds Benjamin Paquet. The Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Pâquet family home are provincial historic places listed on the Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec, and part of Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site, the equivalent of a local historic district. Bibliography Souvenir consacré à la mémoire vénérée de Mgr P.F. Turgeon, archevêque de Québec et premier visiteur de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, L. Brousseau, 1867, 47 p. Discours prononcé à la cathédrale de Québec, le 10 avril 1869, cinquantième anniversaire de la prêtrise de Pie IX, Quebec City, Delisle, 1869, 25 p. Monseigneur Baillargeon, sa vie, son oraison funèbre, prononcée à la cathédrale, son éloge dans les églises du Québec et ses funérailles, Quebec City, A. Côté et cie, 1870, 93 p. Le Libéralisme; leçons données à l'université Laval, Quebec City, Le Canadien, 1872, 103 p. Rome, Imprimerie Polyglotte de la S.C. de la propagande, 1877, 190 p. (revised edition). Police! Police! à