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DUVAL, SALLUSTE (baptized Clarent-Salluste-Hermycle), physician, inventor, organist, professor, and engineer; b.
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28 Feb. 1852 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada, son of Louis-Zéphirin Duval, a notary, and Éléonore Verreau; d. unmarried 23 July 1917 in Montreal and was buried 25 July in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli.
Salluste Duval received the rudiments of education in his native village, partly from his mother, who was a former teacher and a sister of the educator Hospice-Anthelme-Jean-Baptiste Verreau*.
He entered the Petit Séminaire de Québec on 22 Jan. 1864 but transferred at the end of September 1866 to the Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse. Fascinated from early childhood by physics and mechanics – he spent hours taking watches apart and using the pieces for his own inventions – he was given permission at the latter school to work on the organ.
In 1871, when he finished his classical studies, the Université Laval granted him a
