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Jean Baptiste Jean Batiste 
a personification of the French Canadian.
See also: John Baptiste Johnny Courteau
- 1818 The sharp, unchangeable lineaments of the French countenance, set off with a blue or red night-cap . . . give undeniable testimony of the presence of Jean Baptiste.
- 1832 Jean Baptiste is as frequently a nom de guerre for Canadian habitans, as John Bull is for the English, or Saunders for the Scotch.
- 1878 Your Jean Baptiste has a specially keen eye for a good stick of timber.
- 1960 These Nile men were rather the shanty-boy variety of Canadian riverman, just as much at home on certain Canadian rivers as Jean Baptiste had ever been but more skilled with the raft, the pike and the peavey than with the paddle and packsack.
- 1818 The sharp, unchangeable lineaments of the French countenance, set off with a blue or red night-cap . . . give undeniable testimony of the presence of Jean Baptiste.