who was louis riel?
Politician
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 Louis Riel is a historical biography in comics by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown , published as a book in 2003 after serializion in 1999 – 2003 . The story deals with Métis rebel leader Louis Riel 's antagonistic relationship with the newly established Canadian government . It begins shortly before the 1869 Red River Rebellion , and ends with Riel 's 1885 hanging for high treason . The book explores Riel 's possible schizophrenia — he believed God had named him Prophet of the New World , destined to lead the Métis people to freedom . 

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 An episode of the TV @-@ series How the West Was Won from 1979 was named L 'Affaire Riel , featuring Louis Riel while in exile in the United States . 

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 Representations of Saint @-@ Just include those found in the novel Stello ( 1832 ) by Alfred de Vigny , and in the plays Danton 's Death ( 1835 , by Georg Büchner ) and Poor Bitos ( Pauvre Bitos , ou Le dîner de têtes , 1956 , by Jean Anouilh ) . In film , Saint @-@ Just has been portrayed by Abel Gance in Napoléon ( 1927 ) ; Jess Barker in Reign of Terror ( 1949 ) ; Bogusław Linda in Danton ( 1983 ) ; and Christopher Thompson in La Révolution française ( 1989 ) . Jean @-@ Pierre Léaud plays a surreal caricature of Saint @-@ Just in Jean @-@ Luc Godard 's Week End ( 1967 ) . Saint @-@ Just is the main character in the fantasy novel Light from Aphelion : Rising from Dust ( 2016 , by Martine Carlsson ) . 

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 Historian Donald Creighton has argued that Riel 's had become a changed man : 

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 As Graham Robb indicates in his 1994 biography , Balzac 's words were an accurate prediction of the 1848 Revolution . Public opposition to the monarchy exploded in February of that year , Louis @-@ Philippe was forced to abdicate , and the Second Republic was founded . 
