Editing Wilfrid Laurier (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Lady Laurier photo by William James Topley (cropped).jpg|150px|thumb|left|Zoé, Lady Laurier]]
Wilfrid Laurier married [[Zoé Lafontaine]] in Montreal on May 13, 1868. She was the daughter of G.N.R. Lafontaine and his first wife, Zoé Tessier known as Zoé Lavigne. Laurier's wife Zoé was born in Montreal and educated there at the School of the Bon Pasteur, and at the Convent of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, St. Vincent de Paul. The couple lived at Arthabaskaville until they moved to Ottawa in 1896. She was one of the vice presidents on the formation of the National Council of Women and was honorary vice president of the [[Victorian Order of Nurses]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/195 195]}}</ref> The couple had no children.

Beginning in 1878 and for some twenty years while married to Zoé, Laurier had an "ambiguous relationship" with a married woman, [[Émilie Lavergne|Émilie Barthe]].<ref>[http://www.macdonald-laurier.ca/en/answers/ Réal Bélanger, Macdonald and Laurier Days] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425235908/http://www.macdonald-laurier.ca/en/answers/ |date=April 25, 2012 }}</ref> Zoé was not an intellectual; Émilie was, and relished literature and politics like Wilfrid, whose heart she won. Rumour had it he fathered a son, [[Armand Lavergne]], with her, yet Zoé remained with him until his death.<ref name="WLbio" />[[File:Laurier monument Feb 2005.jpg|175px|thumb|right|Laurier's elaborate tomb near the front gates of Ottawa's [[Notre-Dame Cemetery (Ottawa)]].]]