Ottawa. He drew notice in 1897–1900 when he had published a number of caricatures of Wilfrid Laurier and his cabinet as blackface minstrels under the title "By-Town Coons". His best known work was of rural French Canadians which he started making about 1875 and continued for the rest of his life. From 1900 he took up painting, particularly commissions for scenes from French Canadian culture. His works appeared in exhibitions at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1899 and 1907 and at the Salon of the Art Association of Montreal in 1908. Julien drew with speed and accuracy and attracted note for his skill at capturing expressions and gestures. He illustrated the annual and his work appeared in other Canadian publications such as John Wilson Bengough's Grip, Desbarats's Dominion Illustrated, Favourite, Jester, Canard, and Grelot, as well as foreign publications such as the American Harper's Weekly, the British The Graphic, and the French Le Monde illustré and L'Illustration. Julien married Marie-Louise Legault dit Deslauriers (d. 1924) in Montreal on 17 October 1876; of the couple's eighteen children, seven daughters and one son survived into adulthood. Julien died in Montreal on 17 September 1908. of a sudden stroke of apoplexy on St. James Street across from the St. Lawrence Hall. He had just left the Montreal Star in apparent good health with his son. At the time he was developing sketches for a parade to celebrate Quebec's 300th anniversary. Le Vieux de '37 Le Vieux de '37 (French for "The Old Man of '37") is the name under which is known an illustration by Julien created in approximately 1880 to illustrate Le vieux patriote, a poem from Louis Fréchette. It depicts a participant of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 which sought to make of Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) a democratic republic independent from the British Empire. It is nowadays one of the best known symbols of the Rebellion. It was used by the Front de libération du Québec upon pamphlets and communiqués during the 1960s and the year 1970. Some contemporary Patriote flags are flanked with them in their center. Legacy The sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert eulogized Julien as "the most original talent in this country". A posthumous collection of his cartoons appeared in the Album Henri Julien in 1916. The architect William Sutherland Maxwell toured an exhibition of 125 unpublished works by Julien in 1936. The show