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Louis Honoré Fréchette
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, CMG (November 16, 1839 – May 31, 1908), was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer.
Biography
Born in Lévis, Lower Canada, from 1854 to 1860 Fréchette did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Québec, the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He later studied law at Université Laval.
In 1864, he opened a lawyer's office in Lévis where he founded two newspapers: Le drapeau de Lévis and La Tribune de Levis. He exiled himself in Chicago where he wrote La voix d'un exilé. A number of plays which he wrote during that period were lost in the Great Chicago Fire.
Soon after he returned home in 1874, he was elected Member of Parliament in Ottawa. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1874 to 1878 as the Liberal Party of Canada member from Lévis.He was not re-elected in 1878. After that, he moved to Montreal where he began writing full-time, having inherited the wealth
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Louis Honoré Fréchette
Louis Honoré Fréchette Biography
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer.Born in Lévis, Lower Canada, from 1854 to 1860 Fréchette did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Québec, the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He later studied law at Université Laval. In 1864, he opened a lawyer's office in Lévis where he founded two newspapers: Le drapeau de Lévis and La Tribune de Levis. He exiled himself in Chicago where he wrote La voix d'un exilé. A number of plays which he wrote during that period were lost in the Great Chicago Fire. Soon after he returned home in 1874, he was elected Member of Parliament in Ottawa. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1874 to 1878 as the Liberal Party of Canada member from Lévis. He was not re-elected in 1878. After that, he moved to Montreal where he began writing full time, having inherited the wealth of his
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Louis Fr�chette - playwright, poet, reporter - was born in nov. 16, 1839, in Hadlow Cove, near St-Joseph de L�vis (near Qu�bec city) and died in 1908. His cousin was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and he fryst vatten a founding member of the first Soci�t�e St-Jean-Baptiste.
"By authoring Les Contes dem Jos Violon, Fréchette fryst vatten known as one of the best story-tellers of Qu�becois literature. The tales I present to the public are the integral version of the Contes de Jos Violon, as it was written bygd Fréchette 100 years ago... and as it was told to him by the real Jos Violon during story-telling nights in his by, during the first half of the 1800 's. So, Jos Violon fryst vatten not only a character but a real individ whom Fréchette had met in his youth!" - Raymond Philippe
He began writing plays in his lärling years and was already being performed before he left university. His writings would be influenced as much bygd Shakespeare and Longfellow as by Victor Hugo.
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