rebels, when in fact he had just brought his horse to water at the stoups of the church. Later, having billetted his troops at Saint-Hyacinthe, Gugy stayed at the house of Jean Dessaulles, where the children of his enemy Papineau had taken refuge. Gugy gave a wax doll to Ezilda Papineau and two picture books to Gustave Papineau. Subsequent career Following the Rebellion, Gugy held the position of Police Magistrate at Montreal, and then from 1841 to 1846, he was appointed Adjutant-General to the Militia of Lower Canada. As Adjutant-General, the party of Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine frequently targeted him for not placing enough French Canadians in the higher ranks of the militia. After the Union of 1841, Gugy failed to win the parliamentary seat for Saint-Maurice when the supporters of his opponent, Joseph-Édouard Turcotte, seized the polling booth. He had also been a candidate for his old seat in Sherbrooke but was defeated by Edward Hale. In 1848, he was returned to Sherbrooke by acclamation. In the house, Gugy voted regularly against the ministry of Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine, and during the famous debate on the Rebellion Losses Bill, Gugy, with Sir Allan Napier MacNab, was the principal leader of the opposition. In 1849, his speeches fuelled the tension that finally exploded with the Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal and the subsequent riots. Gugy reacted with his customary spirit on the night of the burning, seizing several of the agitators to stop them from setting upon the Speaker, Augustin-Norbert Morin. The next day, 26 April, Gugy climbed a lamp-post on the Champ de Mars and for two hours harangued the crowd that had gathered to launch an attack on the homes Sir Francis Hincks, Benjamin Holmes and his old enemy Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine, trying in vain to persuade them to disperse. Retirement After 1850, through fear of the annexationists, Gugy gradually drew away from the Montreal Tories, and did not run for election in 1851. Colonel Gugy was nevertheless appointed one of the Canadian representatives to The Great Exhibition in London. In 1853, he received another civil post as Inspector and Superintendent of Police at Montreal, but resigned the same year to retire to the estate at Beauport that he had inherited in 1840 from his father, together with the Seigneuries of Yamachiche, Rivière-du-Loup, Grandpré, Grosbois, and Dumontier. After a stinging defeat in 1854 at the