In 1879, Mercier was appointed Solicitor General of Quebec in the Cabinet of Premier Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière and served in that position for less than a year.

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, ( December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908 ) served as the fourth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

In 1977, Joly Braga Santos was distinguished with the Order of Santiago de Espada by President of the Republic of Portugal.

Joly de Lotbinière had become premier two months earlier when the previous Conservative premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville had resigned or was deposed by Lieutenant-Governor Luc Letellier de Saint-Just.

Joly was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Lotbinière in 1861 as a Bleu, a moderate liberal, but was a member of the more radical Parti rouge when re-elected in 1863.

* The signature sketch of the series sees Joly innocuously present in a public location, often a place of relative quiet such as an art gallery, a library or an internet cafe, when a loud Nokia ring tone sounds.

Other targets included a street cleaner who was forced to move his wheelbarrow of equipment away from double-yellow lines, a bus which Joly attempted to ticket for illegal parking when it is at a bus stop and a taxi, which he himself hailed to a stop.

* December 5-Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, politician, Minister, 4th Premier of Quebec and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia ( died 1908 )

Dominic John Romulus " Dom " Joly (; born 15 November 1967 ) is a British television comedian and journalist.

Joly was born in Beirut, Lebanon to British parents and speaks French in addition to English.

Joly was nominated for three British Comedy Awards for the show, won the Silver Rose of Montreux, the BBC2 Award for Best Comedy and the Loaded / Goodfella Comedy Newcomer of the Year.

In June 2008, Joly became the co-star of the Cobra Pubcast, a podcast from British beer company Cobra Beer that he hosted with humorist Danny Wallace.

The original British edition of the show, produced by Absolutely Productions, starred Dom Joly and ran for two series on the British television channel Channel 4 from 2000 to 2003.

* Joly is in the process of conducting a streetside interview with a British celebrity, but becomes increasingly distracted before abruptly departing.

In 1903, before political parties were a part of British Columbia politics, Lieutenant Governor Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière was the last lieutenant governor in Canada to dismiss from office an incumbent premier, Edward Gawler Prior ; Prior had been found to have given an important construction contract to his own hardware business, though he was later appointed as lieutenant governor himself.

The advert was famously spoofed by Dom Joly in the British sketch series Trigger Happy TV where Dom would knock on doors presenting the ' zap mega ' challenge.

Decker also appeared in the British comedy series Trigger Happy TV in which she appeared in a " bull in a china shop " sketch ( the joke being that she had previously had a hit with the song, " China in Your Hand "), and in another sketch where she accompanied Dom Joly as he pretended to be a door-to-door salesman.

* 1903 – George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat

John Joly FRS ( 1 November 1857 – 8 December 1933 ) was an Irish physicist, famous for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer.

Along with his friend Henry Horatio Dixon, Joly also put forward the cohesion-tension theory which is now thought to be the main mechanism for the upward movement of water in plants.

Joly also invented a photometer for measuring light intensity, a meldometer for measuring the melting points of minerals, a differential steam calorimeter for measuring specific heats and a constant-volume gas thermometer, all of which bear his name, together with one of the first color photographic processes, the Joly Colour process.

* George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat.

* John Joly of Dublin devises the Joly colour screen, an additive colour photographic process for producing images from a single photographic plate.

Joly Braga Santos also wrote three operas, chamber music for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, film scores, and several choral works based on poems from the great classical and modern Portuguese and Spanish poets such as Camões, Antero de Quental, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Fernando Pessoa, Garcilaso de la Vega, Antonio Machado and Rosalía de Castro.

Since then, Joly has continued to make edgy off-beat television like World Shut Your Mouth for BBC1 and Dom Joly's Happy Hour, a spoof travel show for Sky One.

Joly is also an author with several books to his name, and an award-winning travel writer for both the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday.

After being recruited to work as a producer on ITN's House to House, a political discussion programme on Channel 4, Joly went on to work for The Mark Thomas Comedy Product because of his political knowledge.

The three DVDs for the shows were best-sellers, as were the soundtrack albums that Joly had personally selected and mixed himself.

A new series of Trigger Happy TV was made for an American audience in 2003 with an altered format in that it featured a band of different " comedians " who performed skits without Joly.

Following the success of Trigger Happy TV on Channel 4, Joly was secured by the BBC for a rumoured £ 5 million.

The cohesion-tension theory is a theory of intermolecular attraction commonly observed in the process of water traveling upwards ( against the force of gravity ) through the xylem of plants which was put forward by John Joly and Henry Horatio Dixon.

After his death, his friends subscribed the sum of £ 1, 700 to set up a memorial fund which is still used to promote the annual Joly Memorial Lectures at the University of Dublin, which were inaugurated by Sir Ernest Rutherford in 1935.

Discovering that working in comedy was both easier and more fun than his previous employment, Joly began to develop Trigger Happy TV which had a similar structure to War of the Flea.

A spoof documentary about Joly followed, called Being Dom Joly which was produced and written by Joly himself.

However, his first show for the BBC, This is Dom Joly, a spoof chatshow in which Joly played an appallingly egotistical media character who had the same name as him, thereby confusing a lot of the audience as to what was real and what wasn't, did not achieve the same success as Trigger Happy TV, leading to the hidden camera format being revamped on BBC1 as World Shut Your Mouth.

His next project for Sky One was a critically acclaimed spoof travel series supposedly investigating attitudes to alcohol around the world, entitled Dom Joly's Happy Hour, in which Joly teamed up with his friend, Canadian digital artist Peter Wilkins.

Joly published a humour travel book called The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations ( 2010 ) which is about dark tourism.

In the book Joly travels to places that witnessed great tragedy and death, including Chernobyl, which he visited on 4 May 2009, his childhood home of Lebanon, North Korea, various locations in the United States ( visiting the places of famous assassinations ), the Killing Fields of Cambodia and Iran for a skiing holiday.

* Ian Brown-Golden Gaze, in which Joly made the whole video in one take, making Brown run through the streets of London being chased by gorillas, frog-men and ninjas before he took refuge in the Prince Charles Cinema.

The show consists of Joly deliberately entering into ludicrous or embarrassing situations in public places, which were filmed surreptitiously by Cadman.

A spoof documentary about Joly followed the original three series, called Being Dom Joly which was produced and written by Joly himself.

Les Mystères was later plagiarized by Maurice Joly in The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, which in turn was plagiarized by the creators of the infamous antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.