The French writer and translator Paschal Grousset wrote (among other works) the first drafts of Jules Verne's novels "The Begum's Fortune" and "The Vanished Diamond".
Étienne-Paschal Taché (1795-1865) was a Canadian doctor and politician. Taché was from the Quebec province, and as a French-Canadian, Taché was a vivid supporter of the British Crown and in 1848, he delivered his famous idea of French-Canadian loyalty to the British crown: … ‘‘we will never forget our allegiance till the last cannon which is shot on this continent in defense of Great Britain is fired by the hand of a French-Canadian’’ ’. Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché's loyalty was even officially recognized as an ‘aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, and held the honorary rank of a Colonel in the army.