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Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1807-1864) was a Canadian politician who served as the first joint Premier of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada in collaboration with Robert Baldwin, from 1842 to 1843.
In Tolstoy's War and Peace, a character named Prince Hippolyte Kuragin is the brother of Anatole and Helene.
In Madame Bovary, the porter with a club foot on whom Bovary's husband operates is named Hippolyte. A similarly unfortunate character appears in Dostoevsky's The Idiot with the Russian version of the name, Ippolit.

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